The origins of music / edited by Nils Wallin, Björn Merker, and Steven Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Steven, 1963 March 26- editor.

Merker, Björn, editor.

Wallin, Nils Lennart, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Music--Origin--Congresses.

Music.

Musicology.

Music--Origin.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations 26 cm

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology -- the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself.

Contents:

1 An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology / Steven Brown, Bjorn Merker, Nils L. Wallin 3

II Vocal Communication in Animals 25

2 Prolegomena to a Biomusicology / Simha Arom 27

3 Origins of Music and Speech: Insights from Animals / Peter Marler 31

4 Birdsong Repertoires: Their Origins and Use / Peter J. B. Slater 49

5 What's Behind a Song? The Neural Basis of Song Learning in Birds / Carol Whaling 65

6 The Sound and the Fury: Primate Vocalizations as Reflections of Emotion and Thought / Marc D. Hauser 77

7 Gibbon Songs and Human Music from an Evolutionary Perspective / Thomas Geissmann 103

8 Social Organization as a Factor in the Origins of Language and Music / Maria Ujhelyi 125

9 The Progressively Changing Songs of Humpback Whales: A Window on the Creative Process in a Wild Animal / Katharine Payne 135

III Music, Language, and Human Evolution 151

10 Can Biomusicology Learn from Language Evolution Studies? / Derek Bickerton 153

11 Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Music and Language / Jean Molino 165

12 Paleoneurology and the Biology of Music / Harry Jerison 177

13 Hominid Brain Evolution and the Origins of Music / Dean Falk 197

14 Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Speech Sounds / David W. Frayer, Chris Nicolay 217

15 New Perspectives on the Beginnings of Music: Archeological and Musicological Analysis of a Middle Paleolithic Bone "Flute" / Drago Kunej, Ivan Turk 235

IV Theories of Music Origin 269

16 The "Musilanguage" Model of Music Evolution / Steven Brown 271

17 How Music Fixed "Nonsense" into Significant Formulas: On Rhythm, Repetition, and Meaning / Bruce Richman 301

18 Synchronous Chorusing and Human Origins / Bjorn Merker 315

19 Evolution of Human Music through Sexual Selection / Geoffrey Miller 329

20 Simulating the Evolution of Musical Behavior / Peter Todd 361

21 Antecedents of the Temporal Arts in Early Mother-Infant Interaction / Ellen Dissanayake 389

22 A Neurobiological Role of Music in Social Bonding / Walter Freeman 411

V Universals in Music 425

23 Human Processing Predispositions and Musical Universals / Sandra Trehub 427

24 The Question of Innate Competencies in Musical Communication / Michel Imberty 449

25 An Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Universals in Musical Sound and Musical Culture / Bruno Nettl 463

26 The Necessity of and Problems with a Universal Musicology / Francois-Bernard Mache 473

VI The End of the Beginning 481

27 Listening to Music 483.

Notes:

"A Bradford Book."

Consists of papers given at a workshop on the origins of music held in Fiesole, Italy, May 1997, the first of a series called Florentine Workshops in Biomusicology.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Origins of music.

ISBN:

9780262285698

026228569X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.