基本説明
This volume brings together leading scholars from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, neurobiology, developmental psychology, artificial intelligence, musicology, and related fields. Their twelve original chapters trace the emergence and development of musicality across individuals and species, exploring its evolutionary origins and its possible coevolution with emotion, ritual, communication, and social cohesion.
Full Description
What is music when viewed as a biological phenomenon, and how does that perspective shape our understanding of ourselves? The Biology of Music offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of musicality as a biologically grounded yet culturally shaped human capacity. While music itself is a product of culture, the ability to perceive, process, and produce music--known as musicality--has deep evolutionary roots and intersects with nearly every domain of human experience.
Edited by Andrea Ravignani, this volume brings together leading scholars from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, neurobiology, developmental psychology, artificial intelligence, musicology, and related fields. Their twelve original chapters trace the emergence and development of musicality across individuals and species, exploring its evolutionary origins and its possible coevolution with emotion, ritual, communication, and social cohesion.
Organized into three thematic sections, the book examines musical universals and early ontogeny; cross-species comparisons and the biocultural evolution of musicality; and theoretical models that account for how musical capacities arise and diversify. Contributors engage with topics such as musicking across species, systems evolution, evo-devo approaches, and the interplay between biological predispositions and cultural environments. Rather than imposing a single explanatory framework, the volume highlights the value of dialogue--between disciplines, between biological and cultural perspectives, and between empirical findings and conceptual models. The result is a rigorous yet accessible synthesis that reflects the growing momentum toward a biologically informed musicology and a culturally literate biomusicology.
Contents
SECTION I. MUSICALITY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, IN OTHER SPECIES AND IN ALGORITHMS 1: Henkjan Honing: Musical Animals: Are We? Can There Be? 2: Alex South, Emily Doolittle, and Buddhamas Pralle Kriengwatana: Musicking in Humans and Other Animals 3: Maya Gratier and Louise Goupil: The Ontogeny of Music 4: Steven Jan and Robin Laney: The Synthetic Biology of Music SECTION II. THE (PALEO)ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF MUSICALITY 5: Anton Killin and Peter Hiscock: The Phylogeny of Musicality: Traits Comprising and Enabling the Hominin Musicality Phenotype 6: David M. Schruth and Niels Chr. Hansen: The Anthropology of Musicality 7: Tudor Popescu and Felix Haiduk: Are There Biologically Based Musical Universals? 8: Mason Youngblood and Fabian C. Moss: The History of Music: Approaches from Cultural Evolution and Musicology SECTION III. HYPOTHESES AND MODELS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC AND MUSICALITY 9: Gary Tomlinson and Günter Wagner: Systems Evolution and the Emergence of Music 10: Bernardino Fantini and Paolo Tortiglione: A Biocultural Analysis of the Components of Music and Their Specific Emotional Power 11: Luis Alejandro Villanueva and Gerd B. Müller: An Evo-Devo Model for the Evolution of Music 12: Ellen Dissanayake: Did Human Musicality Evolve from Ancestral Mother-Infant Early Interactions via Ceremonial Ritual and Its Arts? An Interdisciplinary Proposal
