Entrainment, broadly defined, is a phenomenon in which two or more independent rhythmic processes synchronize with each other. To illuminate the significance of entrainment for various directions of music research and promote a nuanced understanding of the concept among ethnomusicologists, this publication opens with an exposition of entrainment research in various disciplines, from physics to linguistics and psychology, while systematically introducing basic concepts that are directly relevant to musical entrainment. Topics covered include consideration of self-synchrony and interpersonal synchrony in musical performance, humans’ innate propensities to entrain, the influence of cultural and personal factors on entrainment, the numerous functions of musical entrainment in individual health, socialization, and cultural identification, and a presentation of methodologies and analytical techniques. Finally, some case studies illustrating one methodological strand, that of chronometric analysis, exemplify how the application of the entrainment concept might lead to an understanding of music making and music perception as an integrated, embodied and interactive process.

The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology

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In time with the music: the concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology

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During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia’s past but also its present.

Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia

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Tracing an American Yoga: Identity and Cross-Cultural Transaction

The Triadic Heart of Śiva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir@@@The Triadic Heart of Siva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir

Cutting across distinctions of schools and types, the author explains the central feature of Kashmir Saivism: the creative pulse of the all pervasive consciousness called Siva. This is also the central theme of the Hindu Tantras, and Dyczkowski provides new insight into the most literate and extensive interpretations of the Tantras. This book is significant from four points of view. First, it breaks new ground in Indian philosophy. According to the Spanda Doctrine, the self is not simply witnessing consciousness as maintained by Sankhya and Vedanta, but is an active force. Second, the ultimate reality is not simply a logical system of abstract categories but is living, pulsating energy, the source of all manifestation. Third, the work elaborates the dynamic aspect of consciousness. It supplies an excellent introduction to the texts and scriptures of Kashmir Saivism. Fourth, it suggests a Yoga for the realization of self.

The doctrine of vibration : an analysis of the doctrines and practices of Kashmir Shaivism

The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism

This book is a collection of essays which document in their own way the author's personal journey through parts of Shaiva and Vaisnava Tantras. The book includes chapters on self awareness, own being and egoity, Abhavada, the doctrine of non being, and the Samvitprakasha, the inner pilgrimage of the Tantras.

Mark S. G. Dyczkowski

Papers

The doctrine of vibration : an analysis of the doctrines and practices of Kashmir Shaivism

The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism

A Journey in the World of the Tantras

The cult of the goddess Kubjikā : a preliminary comparative textual and anthropological survey of a secret newar goddess

The aphorisms of Śiva : the Śiva Sūtra with Bhāskara's commentary, the Vārttika