A3 Book section, Chapters in research books
The Modifying Mirror : Binding One’s Experiences through Music (2023)

Taipale, J. (2023). The Modifying Mirror : Binding One’s Experiences through Music. In J. De Souza, B. Steege, & J. Wiskus (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music (pp. C14S1-C14N65). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197577844.013.14

JYU authors or editors

Publication details

All authors or editors: Taipale, Joona

Parent publication: The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music

Parent publication editors: De Souza, Jonathan; Steege, Benjamin; Wiskus, Jessica

ISBN: 978-0-19-757784-4

eISBN: 978-0-19-757787-5

Publication year: 2023

Publication date: 20/04/2023

Pages range: C14S1-C14N65

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197577844.013.14

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/86541

Abstract

This chapter compares music listening with the infant’s experience of care. Several scholars have argued that music can be used for scaffolding one’s self-experience. Developmental psychologists, in turn, maintain a wide consensus over the claim that, in early interaction, the attuned caregiver supports and modifies the infant’s self-experience in various ways. The chapter brings these phenomena together, illustrating how the examination of the early self/other relation can teach us something important concerning the listener/music relation. The first section elaborates on the scaffolding function of music and clarifies two ambiguities haunting the debate. The second section relocates musical scaffolding in the register of vitality forms. Once the third section has dealt with early interaction, and analyzed the basic functions of the attuned caregiver, the fourth section uses the gained insights to examine the structural similarities between music listening and early experiences of attunement. Ultimately, this investigation reveals the “thanatic function” of music.

Keywords: music; emotions; self-regulation (psychology); parent-child relationship; attachment (relations); early childhood; phenomenology

Free keywords: music listening; affective scaffolding; vitality forms; thanatic function; affect attunement; early interaction; infant and caregiver; affect regulation; mirroring function; regulative function

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Ministry reporting: Yes

Reporting Year: 2023

Preliminary JUFO rating: 3