dc.contributor.author | Trevarthen, Colwyn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-18T15:15:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-18T15:15:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Trevarthen, C. (2008). The musical art of infant conversation: Narrating in the time of sympathetic experience, without rational interpretation, before words. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue: Narrative in Music and Interaction, 15-46. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/19443 | |
dc.description.abstract | Infants, like adults and many animals, move with rhythmic gestures that express motive states and changes of emotion and mood. But the communications of babies have a special creativity and message power. Infants are ready at birth to take turns in a "dialogue" of movements with a loving parent. They are attracted to extended engagement with human gestures, and sympathetic to many emotions resonating to the impulses and qualities of movement; imitating, seeking to play an active part in proto-conversations or playful duets of agency (Trevarthen, 1999). When the expressive forms are examined in detail, infant and partner are found to be sharing a subtle "musicality" of communication (Malloch, 1999). Very soon the early musical games become the habits or conventions of a mini-culture, improvised creations of meaning for each pair, of the kind that Maya Gratier calls a "proto-habitus" (Gratier, 2007). They become treasured memories of a special relationship. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.subject.other | infant communication | en |
dc.subject.other | musicality | en |
dc.subject.other | mimesis | en |
dc.subject.other | time | en |
dc.subject.other | narrative | en |
dc.title | The musical art of infant conversation: Narratingin the time of sympathetic experience, without rational interpretation, before words | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201804202186 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | restrictedAccess | |