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Faculty Member, Music
Lecturer in Music
Open University, UK
Thesis Title: Range of Consciousness within Everyday Music Listening Experiences: Absorption, Dissociation and the Trancing Process
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Nikki Dibben
Eric Clarke |
About
My work focuses on the phenomenology (subjective experience) of music in daily life, and the transformations of consciousness that may occur in conjunction with listening to music. I am particularly interested in the psychological processes present in everyday involvement in musical and non-musical activities, and the ways in which music serves to mediate experience.
My most recent empirical research compares everyday absorbing and dissociative experiences in a variety of naturalistic settings, with and without music. Such experiences are related to the concept of spontaneous, everyday trance. I have contextualized this empirical work within a broader, theoretical examination of the impact of personal, socio-cultural and ancestral preferences upon subjective experience, drawing on perspectives from evolutionary psychology, evolutionary aesthetics and ethology.
