tiger roholt

Follow these links for reviews and discussions of my book Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance. I really appreciate the time these reviewers and writers invested in the book. Google Scholar citations Journal of Aesthetic Education, review by Andrew Kania (volume 51, number 1, 2017) Popular Music, review by Philip Boast (volume 36, issue 2, 2017)… — read more

I’ve written a fairly lengthy piece—”From the Author’s Perspective: Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance”—which appears in the new American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. Here is the opening paragraph: How should we understand the relationship between music and body movement? The common view is that a listener’s body movement is a reaction to, an effect… — read more

One of the ideas I leverage in my book, Groove, is the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of motor intentionality.* Phenomenologists use the term “intentional” to refer to our directedness toward something. Merleau-Ponty’s idea is that, in certain movements, our bodily directedness toward objects constitutes a kind of practical, noncognitive understanding of them. (For example, I have a practical… — read more