This volume presents in an organic and synthetic form the Theory of Audiotactile Music (TAM), an innovative musicological theoretical model based on criteria of cognitive anthropology aimed at defining in a taxonomic perspective the set of conceptual systems, practices, texts, experiences, objects and musical behaviours that gave rise to the traditions of jazz, rock, pop and world music during the 20th century.

A research aimed, therefore, at the identification of universal, invariant and sha...