Head music
The idea of head music versus body music is an aesthetic idea in musicology.[1] The distinction has been illustrated by comparing rock n roll with progressive rock, where the intention turned to innovation and experimentation, and "to offer 'head music' for thinking rather than body music for dancing".[2]
References
- ^ Stephen Downes Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Perspectives 2014 1136486917 p33 "Rock and roll has to be body music, before it can be head music, or it will wind up being neither' (Landau 1972, 134)."
- ^ Christopher Partridge, Marcus Moberg The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music 2017 1474237355- Page 61 "With progressive rock, the programme was to innovate, to experimentformally, and to offer 'head music' for thinking rather than body music for dancing."