Musical scaffolding and the pleasure of sad music: Comment on “An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music"

Physics of Life Reviews 25:134-135 (2018)
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Abstract

Why is listening to sad music pleasurable? Eerola et al. convincingly argue that we should adopt an integrative framework — encompassing biological, psycho-social, and cultural levels of explanation — to answer this question. I agree. The authors have done a great service in providing the outline of such an integrative account. But in their otherwise rich discussion of the psycho-social level of engagements with sad music, they say little about the phenomenology of such experiences — including features that may help shed further light on this question. I suggest that emerging enactive perspectives on music and emotion can offer some useful resources.

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Joel Krueger
University of Exeter

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