A Million Years of Music : The Emergence of Human Modernity.
Title:
A Million Years of Music : The Emergence of Human Modernity.
Author:
Tomlinson, Gary.
ISBN:
9781935408666
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (367 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface Concepts, Models, Machines -- 1 Some First Principles -- 2 1,000,000 Years Ago: Acheulean Performances -- 3 500,000 Years Ago: Lower Paleolithic Voices -- Excursus Social Intelligence, Bamboo Minds, and Connectionist Cognition -- 4 250,000 Years Ago: Neandertal Digitalization -- 5 100,000 Years Ago: Symbolic et non -- 6 100,000-20,000 Years Ago, I: Homo sapiens and the Falling Out of Modern Culture -- 7 100,000-20,000 Years Ago, II: Musicking -- 8 Afterward -- Evolution, Emergence, and History: A Final Note -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Plate I -- Plate II.
Abstract:
A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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