abstract:In music, gesture is any movement, either physical (bodily) or mental (imaginary). As such "gesture" includes both categories of movements required to produce sound and categories of perceptual moves associated with those gestures.
It's more than the gut strings and the old-style instruments it's the whole range of attitudes that go into phrasing and musicalgesture and create a performance that's actually about something deeply meaningful.
A. cause an uproar when she flipped the bird during the Super Bowl halftime show, which became a sly rebellious gesture more memorable than the rest of the musical acts that performed at Super Bowl XLVI.