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
Article
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://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001089
Recommended Citation
Aniruddh D. Patel and Chris von Rueden (2021). Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001089
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