Theory of Audiotactile Music. The Basic Concepts

In this volume is presented in an organic and synthetic form the Theory of Audiotactile Music (TMA), an innovative musicological theoretical model based on criteria of cognitive anthropology aimed at defining in taxonomic perspective the set of conceptual systems, practices, texts, experiences, objects and musical behaviors that have given birth during the xx century to the traditions of jazz, rock, pop or world music. A quest aimed, therefore, at the identification of universal, invariant, and shared traits within the proclaimed and virtuosic diversity of forms, genres, and styles of the contemporary phonosphere. The epistemological scope of Audiotactile Music Theory is not limited, however, only to the new musical genres and styles that appeared in the twentieth century: its tools of inquiry reshape aesthetic and critical perspectives in relation to both Western art music and traditional world music cultures.