Music, language, and human evolution
Bannan
Bannan, NicholasContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Examining the potential role of musicality in human evolution and its consequences for human culture, this book draws on archaeology, anthropology, psychology and musicology in order to illustrate the interdisciplinary necessity of accounting for the phenomenon of human music-making.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examining the potential role of musicality in human evolution and its consequences for human culture, this book draws on archaeology, anthropology, psychology and musicology in order to illustrate the interdisciplinary necessity of accounting for the phenomenon of human music-making.
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Introduction : music, language, and human evolution / Nicholas Bannan -- Music and mosaics : the evolution of human abilities / Robert Foley -- The evolution of the human vocal tract : specialized for speech? / Margaret Clegg -- When the words dry up : music and material metaphors half a million years ago / Clive Gamble -- Hominin physiological evolution and the emergence of musical capacities / Ian Morley -- Vocal traditions of the world : towards an evolutionary account of voice production in music / Tran Quang Hai and Nicholas Bannan -- Found objects in the musical practices of hunter-gatherers : implications for the evolution of instrumental music / Pedro Epsi-Sanchis and Nicholas Bannan -- On the evolutionary function of song and dance / Robin Dunbar -- The vocal learning constellation : imitation, ritual culture, and encephalization / Bjorn Merker -- Music as an emergent exaptation / Ian Cross -- Musicians' performance prosody / Johan Sundberg -- Harmony and its role in human evolution / Nicholas Bannan.
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