Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Music is a complex creative process involving many individual participants, from performers to improvisers to composers to listeners and more. Despite this fact, music analysis has often focused on individual composers’ processes and on musical structure, to the exclusion of many of the other activities that go into music making. This book promotes an “interactive turn” for music analysis, one that acknowledges the deeply collaborative creativity at the center of all music-making. This perspective affords a more inclusive and expansive view of music analysis, enabling an understanding of the many kinds of interactions that take place in music-making contexts: between musicians, between performers and their instruments, between musicians and dancers, between musicians and machines, and much more. To do so, it engages a diverse range of musical styles, including Western Euroclassical musics, collaborative improvisations in jazz and free genres, a range of global music practices, and between machines and humans. It also engages listening as an interactive, relational activity in itself. The chapters in this book explore the vibrant interactivity at work in all aspects of music-making and show how detailed music analysis can attend to both the sounds made as well as the human lives and societies defined by and defining those sounds.</jats:p>