Music Language And Human Evolution
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Music Language and Human Evolution
Author | : Nicholas Bannan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2012-07-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199227341 |
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The accompanying DVD provides some glimpses of the practice of music in a variety of cultures and illustrates ways of listening to the human voice that reveal its intrinsic musicality. The DVD was edited by Pedro Espi-Sanchis, who recorded further material in South Africa.
The Singing Neanderthals
Author | : Steven Mithen |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-12-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781780222585 |
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A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen. Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives. In THE SINGING NEANDERTHALS, Steven Mithen redresses the balance, drawing on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence. The result is a fascinating and provocative work and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless and unimportant evolutionary byproduct.
Music Evolution and the Harmony of Souls
Author | : Alan R. Harvey |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780198786856 |
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Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis is on the origin of music and how (and where) it is processed in our brains, exploring in detail the genetic and cultural evolution of modern, loquacious humans, how we may have evolved with unique neural and cognitive architecture, and why two complementary but distinct communication systems - language and music - remain a human universal. In addition the book explores, in some depth, the different theories that have been put forward to explain why musical communication was (and remains) advantageous to our species, with a particular emphasis on the role of music and dance in enhancing altruistic and prosocial behaviours. The author suggests that music, and the social harmonization it brings, was of vital importance in early humans as we became more and more individualized by the emergence of modern language and the modern mind, and the realization that we are mortal. Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives
The Prehistory of Music
Author | : Iain Morley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780199234080 |
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This volume investigates the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. It seeks to understand the relationship between our musical capabilities and the development of our social, emotional, and communicative abilities as a species.
The Evolution of Music
Author | : Leonid Perlovsky,Aleksey Nikolsky |
Publsiher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9782889662869 |
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A Million Years of Music
Author | : Gary Tomlinson |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-02-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781935408659 |
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What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehuman species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia
Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music
Author | : Steven Jan |
Publsiher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781800647381 |
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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa. Comprised of seven chapters, with several musical examples, figures and definitions of terms, this original and accessible book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relationships between music and evolutionary thought. Jan guides the reader through key evolutionary ideas and the development of human musicality, before exploring cultural evolution, evolutionary ideas in musical scholarship, animal vocalisations, music generated through technology, and the nature of consciousness as an evolutionary phenomenon. A unique examination of how evolutionary thought intersects with music, Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music is essential to our understanding of how and why music arose in our species and why it is such a significant presence in our lives.