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A Million Years of Music : The Emergence of Human Modernity / Gary Tomlinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, Gary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicology.
- Music.
- Music--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Distributed by the MIT Press
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.
- Contents:
- Preface : concepts, models , machines
- Some first principles
- 1,000,000 years ago : Acheulean performances
- 500,000 years ago : lower Paleolithic voices
- 250,000 years ago : Neanderthal digitalization
- 100,000 years ago : symbolic et non
- 100,000-20,000 years ago, I : Homo sapiens and the falling out of modern culture
- 100,000-20,000 years ago, II : musicking
- Afterword : evolution, emergence, and history, a final note.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781890951528
- 1890951528
- 9781935408673
- 1935408674
- 9781935408666
- 1935408666
- OCLC:
- 1287099355
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