What Is an Aesthetic Experience? An Aesthetic Experience and Its Significance in Music Performance from Dewey's Theory
Abstract
Aesthetic experience is an important form of life practice. Dewey proposed the view that experience is inseparable from daily life, connected art and human aesthetic activities with daily life, finally forming his own unique empirical theory. This paper will illustrate the differences and connections between the definitions and characteristics of common experience, an experience, aesthetic experience and an aesthetic experience. To analyse the definition of an aesthetic experience, this paper will mainly focus on the definition of an experience and aesthetic experience dialectically, and combine these two theories to discuss the meaning and characteristics of an aesthetic experience. On this basis, this essay will discuss the inseparable relationship between an aesthetic experience and music performing art from the perspectives of performers and audiences.
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