Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 44

Published: Aug. 20, 2020

Abstract Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution musicality have focused mainly on value music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function unifies all these theories, enabled at larger scales than grooming other mechanisms available in ancestral primate societies. We combine cross-disciplinary evidence from archeology, anthropology, biology, musicology, psychology, neuroscience into a unified framework accounts biological cultural music. involves gene–culture coevolution, through which proto-musical behaviors initially arose spread inventions had feedback effects because their impact bonding. emphasize deep links between production, perception, prediction, reward arising repetition, synchronization, harmonization rhythms pitches, summarize empirical levels brain networks, physiological mechanisms, across cultures species. Finally, address potential criticisms testable predictions future research, including neurobiological bases relationships human music, language, animal song, domains. The hypothesis provides most comprehensive theory to date

Language: Английский

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Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

Current Biology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 32(6), P. 1395 - 1402.e8

Published: Feb. 3, 2022

Culture evolves,1Richerson P.J. Boyd R. Not by Genes Alone: How Transformed Human Evolution. University of Chicago Press, 2005Google Scholar, 2Mesoudi A. Cultural Evolution: Darwinian Theory Can Explain and Synthesize the Social Sciences. 2011Crossref Google 3Laland K.N. Brown G.R. Sense Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Behaviour.Second Edition. Oxford 2011Google 4Whiten Hinde R.A. Stringer C.B. Laland Evolves. 2012Google 5Creanza N. Kolodny O. Feldman M.W. evolutionary theory: how culture evolves why it matters.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2017; 114: 7782-7789Crossref PubMed Scopus (110) Scholar but existence cross-culturally general regularities cultural evolution is debated.6Dunn M. Greenhill S.J. Levinson S.C. Gray R.D. Evolved structure language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals.Nature. 2011; 473: 79-82Crossref (288) 7Editorial Universal truths.Nature. 472: 136Crossref (3) 8Passmore S. Jordan F.M. No universals kinship terminology.Evol. Hum. 2020; 2: e42Crossref (8) As a diverse universal phenomenon, music provides novel domain to test for such regularities.9Savage P.E. Sakai E. Currie T.E. Statistical reveal structures functions human music.Proc. 2015; 112: 8987-8992Crossref (178) 10Mehr S.A. Singh Knox D. Ketter D.M. Pickens-Jones Atwood Lucas C. Jacoby Egner A.A. Hopkins E.J. et al.Universality diversity song.Science. 2019; 366: eaax0868Crossref (128) 11Savage music.Palgrave Commun. 5: 16Crossref (24) 12Youngblood Ozaki Y. Savage music. PsyArXiv, 2021https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xsb7vCrossref Folk song melodies can be thought as culturally transmitted sequences notes that change over time under influence cognitive acoustic/physical constraints.9Savage 13Cherbuliez A.E. Alvarenga Karpeles Kennedy Kraus Kunst J. Lange Definition folk music.J. Int. Music Counc. 1955; 7: 23Google 14Bronson B.H. The Ballad Song. California 1969Crossref 15Tierney A.T. Russo F.A. Patel A.D. motor origins avian structure.Proc. 108: 15510-15515Crossref (41) Modeling evolving constructed from an "alphabet" 12 scale degrees16Savage Atkinson Q.D. Automatic tune family identification musical sequence alignment.in: Müller Wiering F. Proceedings 16th International Society Information Retrieval Conference. ISMIR 2015, 2015: 162-168Google allows us quantitatively presence cross-cultural using sample 10,062 musically divergent Japanese English (British/American) traditions.17Machida K. 日本民謡大観 [Japanese anthology]. NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai), 1944Google Scholar,18Bronson Traditional Tunes Child Ballads: With Their Texts, According Extant Records Great Britain America. Princeton 1959Google Our analysis identifies 328 pairs highly related melodies, finding note changes are more likely when they have smaller impacts song's melody. Specifically, (1) with stronger rhythmic less change, (2) substitutions most between neighboring notes. We also find insertions/deletions ("indels") common than substitutions, unlike genetic where reverse true. results consistent across samples despite major differences their scales tonal systems. These findings demonstrate even creative art form subject constraints analogous those governing genes, languages, other domains culture.

Language: Английский

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Cultural Evolution and Music

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 20, 2023

Abstract The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research model for understanding how cultural features change over time space. In this chapter, we review on the evolution music, broken down into three major approaches: (i) corpus-based approaches that use large datasets to infer evolutionary patterns, (ii) experimental explore transmission transformation, (iii) ‘music-like’ behaviors non-human species, such as bird whale song, highlights shared mechanisms future directions. Finally, discuss applications issues like musical endangerment, copyright enforcement, algorithmic inequality. Given have yet be fully leveraged, think has potential become a powerful evolution.

Language: Английский

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Building sustainable global collaborative networks: Recommendations from music studies and the social sciences

Published: June 11, 2021

Global collaborative networks have been established in multiple fields to move beyond research that over-relies on “WEIRD” participants and consider central questions from cross-cultural epistemological perspectives. As researchers music the social sciences with experience building sustaining such networks, we participated a virtual symposium February 7, 2021. exchange knowledge, ideas, recommendations, an emphasis developing global investigate human music-making. We present 14 key take-home particularly regarding 1) enhancing representation of participants, 2) minimizing logistical challenges, 3) ensuring meaningful, reproducible comparisons, 4) incentivizing sustainable collaboration shared practices circumvent hierarchies. Two overarching conclusions are collaborations should attempt including diverse stake-holders, fundamentally re-evaluate nature credit attribution.

Language: Английский

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An overview of cross-cultural music corpus studies

Published: Feb. 21, 2018

The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the availability and use of large music corpora. However, most corpus studies remain limited to Western music, limiting our ability understand diversity unity human throughout world. I argue for potential cross-cultural contribute comparative musicological domains including classification, evolution, universals, history. highlight discuss number important corpora, Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, CompMusic Project, Essen Folksong Collection, Cantometrics Garland Encyclopedia World Music, Natural History Song, Deep Music projects. In process, pros cons notation vs. recordings, automatic manual analysis, regional global associated challenges regarding choosing appropriate analysis methods that can allow meaningful comparison across cultures. need bigger better corpora more emphasis on integration within beyond academia, such as industry cultural heritage organizations.

Language: Английский

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An Overview of Cross-Cultural Music Corpus Studies

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 18, 2022

Abstract The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the availability and use of large music corpora. However, most corpus studies remain limited to Western music, limiting our ability understand diversity unity human throughout world. I argue for potential cross-cultural contribute comparative musicological domains including classification, evolution, universals, history. highlight discuss number important corpora, Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, CompMusic Project, Essen Folksong Collection, Cantometrics Garland Encyclopedia World Music, Natural History Song, Deep Music projects. In process, pros cons notation vs. recordings, automatic manual analysis, regional global associated challenges regarding choosing appropriate analysis methods that can allow meaningful comparison across cultures. need bigger better corpora more emphasis on integration within beyond academia, such as industry cultural heritage organizations.

Language: Английский

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Cultural evolution and music

Published: Oct. 25, 2021

The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research model for understanding how cultural features change over time space. In this chapter, we review on the evolution music, broken down into three major approaches: 1) corpus-based approaches that use large datasets to infer evolutionary patterns, 2) experimental explore transmission transformation, 3) “music-like” behaviors non-human species, such as bird whale song, highlights shared mechanisms future directions. Finally, discuss applications issues like copyright enforcement algorithmic inequality. Given musical have yet be fully leveraged, think has potential become a powerful evolution.

Language: Английский

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Rituals, Music, and the Landscape Metaphor

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 8(2)

Published: Oct. 3, 2022

In this commentary, we discuss two aspects of The Ritual Animal’s (2021) rich and multidimensional framework which may be further developed: the role music euphoric rituals within Harvey Whitehouse’s modes theory, use landscape model for studying sociocultural systems. We note strong, cross-cultural association religious rituals, consider suitability such practices, suggest research on how accommodate both imagistic doctrinal rituals. then describe social used by Whitehouse his proposal to extend through consideration multiple landscapes at different levels. accept suggestion explicitly include underlying overlying networks inputs but argue that since interacting are not external constitutive landscape, a single with causal, constraining, better capture integrated nature

Language: Английский

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