Copyright
Steven JanPublished On
2022-12-06ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
806 pages (xxxiii + 773)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1361809219BIC
- AVA
- JHMC
- JMH
- PSAJ
BISAC
- MUS006000
- MUS020000
- MUS007000
- MUS015000
- SCI027000
Keywords
- evolutionary theory
- music
- relationships between music and evolutionary thought
Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music
- Steven Jan (author)
Endorsements
Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music is an immensely comprehensive and detailed discussion of the connections between music and evolution. Steven Jan compares a range of views about how musicality biologically evolved and about how different forms of music culturally evolved, and argues that considering these questions has profound implications for how we should think about the evolutionary history of our aesthetic, linguistic and cognitive capacities more generally. The book will be of interest to musicologists and evolutionary biologists alike, as well as to philosophers of music, philosophers of biology, and indeed anyone with more than a passing interest in how we came to be the musical creatures that we are.
Dr Justine Kingsbury
University of Waikato
Additional Resources
Erratum
There is some missing text in the first line of the paragraph starting at the bottom of page 528. The opening sentence of this paragraph (pages 528–529) should read:
In the second simulation, the origin of the expectation modelled in the first simulation is explored using robots – each the physical manifestation of an agent – capable of hearing and reproducing sounds via auditory analysis, auditory-motor association, motor-control mapping, and voice-synthesis (2003, p. 95, Fig. 2).
Contents
Preface
(pp. xxv–xxx)- Steven Jan
1 Introduction: Music and Darwinism
(pp. 1–62)- Steven Jan
2 The Evolution of Human Musicality
(pp. 63–164)- Steven Jan
3 Music-Cultural Evolution in the Light of Memetics
(pp. 165–290)- Steven Jan
4 Evolutionary Metaphors in Discourse on Music
(pp. 291–390)- Steven Jan
5 Animal “Musicality” and Animal “Music”
(pp. 391–472)- Steven Jan
6 Computer Simulation of Musical Evolution
(pp. 473–564)- Steven Jan
7 Conclusion: Music, Evolution and Consciousness
(pp. 565–626)- Steven Jan