Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance

by Clemens Wollner and Justin London

Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve memory and expectation, and both can give rise to experiences of flow and pleasure.

Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of performers and audiences, and informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology, neuroscience, and psychology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192896253
• ISBN13: 9780192896254
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.1" x 9.4"