The Prehistory of Music : Human Evolution, Archaeology, and the Origins of Musicality


Iain. Morley
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (464 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Conceiving Music in Prehistory; Introduction; Conceptualizing music and prehistory; The organization of the book; 2. Implications of Music in Hunter-Gatherer Societies; Introduction; Native Americans of the plains (Blackfoot and Sioux); African Pygmies of the equatorial forest (Aka and Mbuti); Australian Aborigines of the Western Desert (Pintupi); The Eskimo of south-west Alaska (Yupik) and Canada (Inuit); Conclusions; Some common features in the uses and nature of music in four hunter-gatherer societies. - 7. Neurological Relationships Between Music and SpeechIntroduction; Hemispheric organization: language in the left brain, music in the right?; Identifying functional neuroanatomy: brain scanning and neuropathology; Speech and melody production; Processing of tonal information in music and speech; Tonal and rhythmic information processing; Does the brain have a neurological modular specialization dedicated uniquely to music?; Conclusions; 8. Vocal Versatility and Complexity in an Evolutionary Context; Introduction; Evidence for an inherited capacity for the perception of melody and rhythm. - Early vocal behaviours in primate infants. - Methods and materials of construction of instruments: implications for the archaeological record3. Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 1: Pipes; Introduction; Introduction to the Upper Palaeolithic; Introduction to Palaeolithic pipes; The earliest reputed pipes; Mousterian musicianship?; Upper Palaeolithic pipes; The Swabian Alb (Geissenklösterle, Hohle Fels, Vogelherd); Isturitz; Other sites; Representations of instruments; The use of bone for instrument manufacture in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic; Raw material availability?. - Neanderthal use of avian fauna for subsistence and as a raw materialUse of avian fauna and technological limitations; Use of avian fauna due to environmental stress; Cultural revolution?; 4. Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 2: Other Sound-Producers; Introduction; Other aerophones; Phalangeal whistles; Bullroarers (free aerophones); Percussive instruments; Rasps (scraped idiophones); Struck percussion; Caves and lithophones; Music and dance in later prehistory; Archaeology conclusions; 5. The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 1: Vocal Anatomy; Introduction. - The vocal apparatus and fossil evidence for its evolutionThe larynx and basicranial flexion; The hyoid bone and mandible; The hypoglossal canal and tongue; Vertebral innervation, intercostal musculature, and breathing control; Some previous explanations for increased tonal range; Conclusions; 6. The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 2: The Brain and Hearing; Introduction; Evidence for the evolution of vocal control in the brain; Fossil endocasts; Neurology of vocal production in primates and humans; The ear, sound perception, and evolution; Conclusions. - Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest-known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology, and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous humanphenomenon - not least, its origins.In a ground-breaking study, this volume brings together evidence from these fields, a
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