Listening to listeners: Embodied music cognition and intersectional practices

Disciplinary background A. Systematic musicology is an interdisciplinary field that uses neurological, psychological, and physical science frameworks, among others, to analyze the physical and cognitive elements of musical experience. This field is often considered a branch of the so-called hard sciences, and uses music as a medium for analyzing concepts in the cognitive, biological, and physical sciences. Disciplinary background B. Ethnomusicology is a branch of music research that considers the cultural, personal, and social structures and implications of music. This type of research utilizes methods in the social sciences along with musicological analysis to consider music in community. Ethnomusicologists regularly engage with methodologies that pull from feminist studies, queer studies, critical race theory, and other intersectional frameworks. Disciplinary