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X-WR-CALNAME:Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Carmel Raz\, "'Art does no
 t deliberate': Toward a History of Habit and Musical Performance"
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DESCRIPTION:I study the interrelations of music\, mind\, and body during th
 e emergence of modern European musical cultures. How did the field of musi
 c cognition develop from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century? How di
 d Enlightenment neurophysiology influence Romantic music? Many insights yi
 elded by experiments in psychology for us today were available in early mu
 sical writings that prioritized introspection as method. I draw out from t
 hese writings—especially those that may be dismissed as merely speculati
 ve\, amateurish\, or effusive—the paradigms that also produced the most 
 respected psychological\, physiological\, and philosophical treatises of t
 heir day. My book\, Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in
  the Scottish Enlightenment  (Oxford University Press\, 2025)\, sheds new 
 light on the history of music perception by focusing on music theory in th
 e Scottish Enlightenment. \n\nMy current book project\, “Art does not de
 liberate”:  A History of Habit and Musical Performance\, argues that\, a
 t least until the nineteenth century\, musical performance was conceptuali
 sed as automatic and non-cognitive\, and that this aspect of its history h
 as been overshadowed by the Romantic view of musicians as inspired vessels
  for the conveyance of sublime—or devilish—experience. Surveying Medie
 val commentators\, Renaissance heretics\, Enlightenment physiologists and 
 Romantic mesmerists (accompanied by ouds\, kitharas\, vielles\, and keyboa
 rds)\, it demonstrates how the complex yet seemingly automatic behavior ex
 hibited in musical performance has long provided thinkers a suggestive exa
 mple by which to explore various conceptions of what it is to be human.\n\
 nMy other research interests include historical theories of attentive list
 ening\, a topic I explore together with Francesca Brittan in an edited col
 lection entitled The Attentive Ear: Sound\, Cognition\, and Subjectivity (
 forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press)\, and the history o
 f music theory in a global perspective\, the subject of a major anthology 
 I am co-curating together with Thomas Christensen and Lester Hu\, entitled
  Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory\, (forthco
 ming with the University of Chicago's OPS).\n\nBefore coming to Cornell\, 
 I spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia Soci
 ety of Fellows\, followed by six years as the Leader of the Research Group
  “Histories of Music\, Mind\, and Body” at the Max Planck Institute fo
 r Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. My research has been supported by the
  Whiting Foundation\, the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, the Baden
 -Württemberg Landesstiftung\, the Max Planck Gesellschaft\, and the Unive
 rsity of Chicago Neubauer Collegium. Recent prizes include a 2024 emerging
  scholar award (article) from the Society for Music Theory\, the 2025 Soci
 ety for Music Theory's Diversity Syllabus award\, and the 2025 Diana McVea
 gh Prize for Best Book on British Music from the North American British Mu
 sic Studies Association.\n\nIn my early twenties\, I was concertmaster of 
 the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and a member of the Lucerne Festival Acad
 emy Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester\, touring under the ba
 tons of Boulez\, Barenboim and Abbado. I also enjoyed improvising\, and co
 llaborated with Jason Lindner\, Omer Avital\, Eran Zur\, Victoria Hanna\, 
 and Yoyo Ma's Silk Road Project among others\, at festivals including the 
 Winter Jazz Fest\, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival\, the Charlie 
 Parker Jazz Festival\, and the BRIC Jazz Festival. Various aspects of thes
 e experiences inspired my academic path and continue to inform my research
  interests.
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SUMMARY:Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Carmel Raz\, "'Art does not del
 iberate': Toward a History of Habit and Musical Performance"
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 oquium-grout-lecture-carmel-raz-art-does-not-deliberate-toward-a-history-o
 f-habit-and-musical-performance
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Music
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