Musical-Psychological Anthropology as an Interdisciplinary Field of Scientific Knowledge

• Main Author: Alla V. Toropova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Moscow Pedagogical State University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 2019-06-01
• Series: Музыкальное искусство и образование
• Subjects: musical and psychological anthropology; musical-language consciousness; artifacts and archetypes of musical-language consciousness; modal personality; precedent musical phenomena and preferences; the psychology of music education
• Online Access: http://musart-edu.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-2-24.pdf

The article presents the conceptual positions of the interdisciplinary field of knowledge “Musical-Psychological Anthropology” as a scientific field that allows comprehending the history of musical art and ethno-cultural variations of musical traditions, historical and modern musical styles as a representation of the experience of developing consciousness and expressing the key experiences of humanity that form the mentality, psychological needs and values of a particular social or ethnic group. The development of the methodology of Music and Psychological Anthropology makes it possible to study such phenomena as: psychological identity of a certain culture or subculture, psychological roots of musical preferences and inclinations, musical style as the presentation of a “modal personality” of a certain social group or subculture, etc. The article contains a description of the procedure and the main results of the study of value orientations of lovers of different musical styles from the perspective of musical and psychological anthropology. The data obtained made it possible to make a generalization that the differentiation of society according to the types of musical preferences manifests deeper psychological complexes of life positions and anthropological images of virtual communities of people with different ideas about the main values of life and the meaning of life. Pedagogical feasibility of developing a university course Music-Psychological Anthropology is due to the search for a new productive synthesis of knowledge, which gives impetus for the development of the professional-personal reflection of future teachers-musicians, the conscious attitude to “their” and “other” as version of life and cultural practices, tolerance to uncertainty and to the dissimilarity of generational self-presentations with a common denominator – the value of the statement of life itself.