The Origins of Musicality (Hardcover)

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves "unmusical." This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology, neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, and other fields consider what music is for and why every human culture has it; whether musicality is a uniquely human capacity; and what biological and cognitive mechanisms underlie it. Contributors outline a research program in musicality, and discuss issues in studying the evolution of music; consider principles, constraints, and theories of origins; review musicality from cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain perspectives; discuss the computational modeling of animal song and creativity; and offer a historical context for the study of musicality. The volume aims to identify the basic neurocognitive mechanisms that constitute musicality (and effective ways to study these in human and nonhuman animals) and to develop a method for analyzing musical phenotypes that point to the biological basis of musicality. Contributors Jorge L. Armony, Judith Becker, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Bruno Gingras, Jessica Grahn, Yuko Hattori, Marisa Hoeschele, Henkjan Honing, David Huron, Dieuwke Hupkes, Yukiko Kikuchi, Julia Kursell, Marie-Elaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Bjoern Merker, Iain Morley, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, Martin Rohrmeier, Constance Scharff, Carel ten Cate, Laurel J. Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Peter Tyack, Dominique Vuvan, Geraint Wiggins, Willem Zuidema

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition)
Contributors:	Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition) • W. Tecumseh Fitch (Professor) • Bjoern Merker • Iain Morley • Willem Zuidema • Laurel Trainor • Aniruddh Patel (Professor) • Sandra E. Trehub • Judith Becker
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-03745-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Drug-induced states Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics) Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN:	0-262-03745-9
Barcode:	9780262037457

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