Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198804352)

David Clarke is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. He is a music theorist with wide a range of research interests, encompassing analytical, philosophical, cultural and critical approaches to music. He is currently engaged in research on consciousness and phenomenology in relation to music, and with Eric Clarke he is co-editor of and contributor to Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives (OUP, 2011). David has published widely on the composer Michael Tippett, including a monograph, The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett (CUP, 2001). He has also written on Arvo Part, Eminem and John Cage, and on issues of modernism, postmodernism and cultural pluralism, most notably in articles on 'Elvis and Darmstadt' and Radio 3's Late Junction. A further current research interest is North Indian classical music, in both theory and practice. David is an associate editor on the editorial board of the journal Twentieth-Century Music.

Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College. He has published on topics in the psychology of music, musical meaning, music and consciousness, musical creativity, and the analysis of pop music. Recent projects include work on music, empathy and cultural understanding; and empirical approaches to nineteenth-century orchestral and chamber music. He is co-editor of Empirical Musicology (2004, with Nicholas Cook), The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (2009, with Nicholas Cook, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink), Music and Consciousness (2011, with David Clarke), and Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music (2017, with Mark Doffman); and is the author of Ways of Listening (2005), and Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010, with Nicola Dibben and Stephanie Pitts). Eric is a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the British Academy.