Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Philosophy of rhythm / Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton , and Max Paddison -- Part 1 : Movement and stasis. Dialogue o n rhythm : entrainment and the dynamic thesis / Andy Hamilton, David Macarthur, Roger Squires, Matthew Tugby, and Rachael Wiseman (compiled and edited by Andy Hamilton) ; Rhythm and movement / Matthew Nud ds ; The ontology of rhythm / Peter Simons ; "Feeling the beat " : multimodal perception and the experience of musical movement / J enny Judge ; Dance rhythm / Aili Bresnahan -- Part II : Emotio n and expression. The life of rhythm : Dewey, relation perception, a nd the "cumulative effect" / Garry L. Hagberg ; Rhythm, preceding its abstraction / Deniz Peters ; Mozart's "dissonance" and the d ialectic of language and thought in classical theories of rhythm / M ichael Spitzer ; Rhythm and popular music / Alison Stone ; Rhy thms, resemblance, and musical expressiveness / Ted Gracyk -- Par t III : Entrainment and the social dimension. Metric entrainment and the problem(s) of perception / Justin London ; Entrainment an d the social origin of musical rhythm / Martin Clayton ; How many kinds of rhythm are there? / Michael Tenzer ; Temporal processin g and the experience of rhythm : a neuro-psychological approach / Ud o Will -- Part IV : Time and experience : subjective and objectiv e rhythm. Complexity and passage : experimenting with poetic rhythm / Christopher Hasty ; Encoded and embodied rhythm : an unprioriti zed ontology / Peter Cheyne ; Time, rhythm, and subjectivity : th e aesthetics of duration / Max Paddison ; Husserl's model of time -consciousness, and the phenomenology of rhythm / Salomãae Jacob ; Pictorial experience and the perception of rhythm / Jason Gaiger ; Soundless rhythm / Victor Durâaa-Vilâaa -- Part V : Read ing rhythm. Rhythm, meter and poetics of abstraction / Jason Davi d Hall ; The not-so-silent reading : what does it mean to say that w e appreciate rhythm in literature? / Rebecca Wallbank ; Leaving i t out : rhythm and short form in the modernist poetic tradition / Wi ll Montgomery ; Hearing it right : rhythm and reading / John Holl iday.

"Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and da nce across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly inte rest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience --particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary st udies--has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete conceptual domains and te chnical vocabularies of musicology and prosody. With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary theorists, and ethno- musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm opens up wider-and plural-persp ectives, examining formal affinities between the historically interconn ected fields of music, dance, and poetry, while addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse, and performance. Volume editors P eter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison bring together a range of key questions: What is the distinction between rhythm and pulse? What i s the relationship between everyday embodied experience, and the specif ic experience of music, dance, and poetry? Can aesthetics offer an unde rstanding of rhythm that helps inform our responses to visual and other arts, as well as music, dance, and poetry? And, what is the relation b etween psychological conceptions of entrainment, and the humane concept of rhythm and meter? Overall, The Philosophy of Rhythm appeals across disciplinary boundaries, providing a unique overview of a neglected asp ect of aesthetic experience."-- Provided by publisher.