The prehistory of music : human evolution, archaeology, and the origins of musicality / Iain Morley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Morley, Iain, 1975-

Contributor:

• Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Music--Origin.
• Human evolution.
• Music--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, plan ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest-known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of field, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous human phenomenon - not least, its origins. This study brings together evidence from these fields, and more, in investigating the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors.

Contents:

• 1 Conceiving Music in Prehistory 1
• Introduction 1
• Conceptualizing music and prehistory 3
• The organization of the book 9
• 2 Implications of Music in Hunter-Gatherer Societies 11
• Introduction 11
• Native Americans of the plains (Blackfoot and Sioux) 15
• African Pygmies of the equatorial forest (Aka and Mbuti) 19
• Australian Aborigines of the Western Desert (Pintupi) 22
• The Eskimo of south-west Alaska (Yupik) and Canada (Inuit) 24
• Conclusions 29
• Some common features in the uses and nature of music in four hunter-gatherer societies 29
• Methods and materials of construction of instruments: implications for the archaeological record 30
• 3 Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 1: Pipes 32
• Introduction 32
• Introduction to the Upper Palaeolithic 33
• Introduction to Palaeolithic pipes 34
• The earliest reputed pipes 35
• Mousterian musicianship? 38
• Upper Palaeohthic pipes 41
• The Swabian Alb (Geissenklösterle, Hohle Feb, Vogelherd) 42
• Isturitz 51
• Other sites 88
• Representations of instruments 89
• The use of bone for instrument manufacture in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic 90
• Raw material availability? 91
• Neanderthal use of avian fauna for subsistence and as a raw material 92
• Use of avian fauna and technological limitations 93
• Use of avian fauna due to environmental stress 94
• Cultural revolution? 96
• 4 Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 2: Other Sound-Producers 99
• Introduction 99
• Other aerophones 100
• Phalangeal whistles 100
• Bullroarers (free aerophones) 105
• Percussive instruments 109
• Rasps (scraped idiophones) 109
• Struck percussion 114
• Caves and lithophones 115
• Music and dance in later prehistory 121
• Archaeology conclusions 124
• 5 The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 1: Vocal Anatomy 130
• Introduction 130
• The vocal apparatus and fossil evidence for its evolution 131
• The larynx and basicranial flexion 135
• The hyoid bone and mandible 144
• The hypoglossal canal and tongue 146
• Vertebral innervation, intercostal musculature, and breathing control 148
• Some previous explanations for increased tonal range 153
• Conclusions 158
• 6 The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 2: The Brain and Hearing 161
• Introduction 161
• Evidence for the evolution of vocal control in the brain 161
• Fossil endocasts 161
• Neurology of vocal production in primates and humans 164
• Voluntary control of emotional content 165
• The role of the periaqueductal grey matter (PAG) 166
• The FoxP2 genetic mutations 168
• The ear, sound perception, and evolution 169
• Conclusions 174
• 7 Neurological Relationships Between Music and Speech 177
• Introduction 177
• Hemispheric organization: language in the left brain, music in the right? 180
• Identifying functional neuroanatomy: brain scanning and neuropathology 181
• Speech and melody production 183
• Processing of tonal information in music and speech 185
• Tonal and rhythmic information processing 190
• Does the brain have a neurological modular specialization dedicated uniquely to music? 194
• Conclusions 197
• 8 Vocal Versatility and Complexity in an Evolutionary Context 201
• Introduction 201
• Evidence for an inherited capacity for the perception of melody and rhythm 202
• Early vocal behaviours in primate infants 202
• Infant-directed speech, music and vocalization 204
• Proto-music/language: rationales for a shared ancestry 214
• Social vocalization in primates 220
• Evolutionary rationales for complexity of vocalization: proto-music, proto-language, and social vocalization 221
• Conclusions 225
• 9 Vocal Control and Corporeal Control-Vocalization, Gesture, Rhythm, Movement, and Emotion 228
• Introduction 228
• Vocal content and manual gesture 229
• Gesture and vocalization in infants 231
• Gesture, vocalization, and meaning 233
• Rhythm, corporeal movement, and emotion 237
• Entrainment 243
• Conclusions 250
• 10 Emotion and Communication in Music 255
• Introduction 255
• Intrinsic and extrinsic emotional content of music 256
• Ecological context, social context, and the human in music 259
• The human in music 261
• Autism, Asperger and Williams syndromes 265
• The role of the social context in which music is experienced 267
• Physiological, neurological, and neurochemical correlates with the experience of emotion in music 268
• Conclusions 273
• 11 Rationales for Music in Evolution 275
• Introduction 275
• Non-adaptive models of musical origins 277
• Some adaptive rationales for the use of music 279
• Music and group cohesion 280
• Music and dance as a coalition signalling system 283
• Music and sexual selection 285
• Music and group selection 289
• Music's multiple meanings and cognitive development 291
• Music and cognitive evolution 294
• Cognitive modularity and symbolic thought 294
• Mimesis, culture, and cognition 297
• Enhanced Working Memory 301
• Conclusions 303
• 12 Conclusions 307
• The nature of music 308
• Conceiving the foundations of music 315
• A timeline for the emergence of musicality 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

• 0199234086
• 9780199234080

OCLC:

824524715

Publisher Number:

99956852147

Online:

The Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund Home Page