The origins of music /
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Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to evolutionary musicology / Steven Brown, Bjo?rn Merker, Nils L. Wallin
- Vocal communication in animals. Prolegomena to a biomusicology / Simha Arom
- Origins of music and speech: insights from animals / Peter Marler
- Birdsong repertoires: their origins and use / Peter J.B. Slater
- Whatʹs behind a song? The neural basis of song learning in birds / Carol Whaling
- The sound and the fury: primate vocalizations as reflections of emotion and thought / Marc D. Hauser
- Gibbon songs and human music from an evolutionary perspective / Thomas Geissmann
- Social organization as a factor in the origins of language and music / Maria Ujhelyi
- The progressively changing songs of humpback whales: a window on the creative process in a wild animal / Katharine Payne
- Music, language, and human evolution. Can biomusicology learn from language evolution studies? / Derek Bickerton
- Toward an evolutionary theory of music and language / Jean Molino
- Paleoneurology and the biology of music / Harry Jerison
- Hominid brain evolution and the origins of music / Dean Falk
- Fossil evidence for the origin of speech sounds / David W. Frayer, Chris Nicolay
- New Perspectives on the beginnings of music: archeological and musicological analysis of a middle paleolithic bone "flute" / Drago Kunel, Ivan Turk
- Theories of music origin. The "musilanguage" model of music evolution / Steven Brown
- How music fixed "nonsense" into significant formulas: on rhtythm, repetiotion and meaning / Bruce Richman
- Synchronous chorusing and human origins / Bjo?rn Merker
- Evolution of human music through sexual selection / Geoffrey Miller
- Simulating the evolution of musical behavior / Peter Todd
- Antecedents of the temporal arts in early mother-infant interaction / Ellen Dissanayake
- A neurobiological role of music in social bonding / Walter Freeman
- Universals in music. Human processing predispositions and musical universals / Sandra Trehub
- The question of innate competencies in musical communication / Michel Imberty
- The end of the beginning. Listening to music