Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution
DOI
10.1017/S0140525X20001089
Abstract
Collective, synchronous music-making is far from ubiquitous across traditional, small-scale societies. We describe societies that lack collective music and offer hypotheses to help explain this cultural variation. Without identifying the factors that explain variation in collective music-making across these societies, theories of music evolution based on social bonding (Savage et al.) or coalition signaling (Mehr et al.) remain incomplete.
Document Type
Restricted Article: Campus only access
Publication Date
9-21-2021
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2021, Cambridge University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001089
The definitive version is available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/where-they-sing-solo-accounting-for-crosscultural-variation-in-collective-musicmaking-in-theories-of-music-evolution/E33FE899144811B4F7DBB0E3C8D64F9F#article
Recommended Citation
Patel, Aniruddh D., and Christopher von Rueden. “Where They Sing Solo: Accounting for Cross-Cultural Variation in Collective Music-Making in Theories of Music Evolution.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (September 30, 2021): e85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001089.
