Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1).

Arnie Cox was raised in the Pacific Northwest where he attended Humboldt State University and the University of Oregon — the latter being where he came under the influence of Mark Johnson (author of The Body in the Mind). Professor Cox is author of Music & Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling & Thinking (Indiana University Press, 2016), along with various journal articles and book chapters. He taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio, USA) from 1998 to 2022 before retiring to devote more time to on several large-scale projects. He is currently writing a book on the bodily bases of musical value.