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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallin, Nils Lennart.

Merker, Björn.

Brown, Steven, 1963 March 26-

Series:

A Bradford book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Origin--Congresses.

Music.

Human evolution--Congresses.

Human evolution.

Musicology--Congresses.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation 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. ContributorsSimha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, Francois-Bernard Mache, Peter Marler, Bjorn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling."

Contents:

Vocal communication in animals

Music, language, and human evolution

Theories of music origin

Universals in music.

Notes:

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.

"A Bradford Book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-28569-X

0-585-20006-8

OCLC:

44963330

Publisher Number:

9780262285698