Musik als Ausdrucksgebärde
Zur kultur- und wissensgeschichtlichen Erforschung der musikalischen Körperkommunikation
[Music as Expressive Gesture. On the History of Culture and Knowledge in the Study of Musical Body Communication]

Since Darwin’s Expression of Emotion in Man and Animal, “expressive gestures” have become a common synonym for physical, gestural, and vocal reflexive actions and movements. They are also connected to the conception, production, and performance of music.
Through an account that spans epochs and continents, this book explores the history of culture and knowledge of these manual and facial movements to music—which are often marginalized in conventional historiography—as well as of “tonal gestures” such as screaming or crying.