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• Title:A million years of music : the emergence of human modernity / Gary Tomlinson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tomlinson, Gary, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Zone Books, 2015.
  Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Distributed by the MIT Press
  ©2015
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at MAA LIBRARY (IKB) reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML160 .T635 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Music--History and criticism.
  Musicology.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:362 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In this path-breaking book, renowned musicologist Gary Tomlinson draws from these areas to construct a new narrative for the emergence of human music. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehuman species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia. But 'A Million Years of Music' is not about music alone. Tomlinson builds a model of human evolution that revises our understanding of the interaction of biology and culture across evolutionary time-scales, challenging and enriching current models of our deep history.0As he tells his story, he draws in other emerging human traits: language, symbolism, a metaphysical imagination and the ritual it gives rise to, complex social structure, and the use of advanced technologies. Tomlinson's model of evolution allows him to account for much of what makes us a unique species in the world today and provides a new way of understanding the appearance of humanity in its modern form.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781935408659
  1935408658 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Some First Principles
  Listening Back
  Incrementalism
  Perils of Adaptationism
  Coevolution, Sociality, and Culture
  Biocultural Coevolution of Hominins
  Looking Forward
  II. 1,000,000 Years Ago: Acheulean Performances
  Marteau sans maitre
  Acheulean Industries
  Embodied Symmetries
  Chaine Operatoire and Taskscape
  Mimetic Traditions
  Entrainment
  Acheulean Increment
  Poiesis
  III. 500,000 Years Ago: Lower Paleolithic Voices
  Vocalized Taskscape
  Copresence
  Mindreading and Shared Attention
  Protolanguage
  Protodiscourse and Gesture-Calls
  Myths about Musical Protolanguage
  Prosody and Melodic Contour
  Negotiated Voicescape
  Excursus: Social Intelligence, Baboon Minds, and Connectionist Cognition
  IV. 250,000 Years Ago: Neandertal Digitalization
  Protodiscourse as Protomusical Structure
  Middle Paleolithic Heuristics
  Neandertal Lithics
  Further Protomusical Structure
  Discrete Neandertals
  V. 100,000 Years Ago: Symbolic et non
  Archaeological Conundrum
  Regressive Symbolism
  Peirce, Deacon, and Emergent Symbolism
  Symbolocentrism and the Indexical Challenge
  System without Symbol: A Phylogeny of Discrete Pitch
  Glimpses of Modernity
  VI. 100,000
  20,000 Years Ago, I: Homo sapiens and the Falling Out of Modern Culture
  Fine Grain
  Migrations and Climates
  Population and Innovation
  Repeating Epicycles: Engravings and Beads out of Africa
  Trackless Paths
  VII. 100,000
  20,000 Years Ago, II: Musicking
  How the Hunters Returned
  Differences over Aurignacian Difference
  What Aurignacian Musical Pipes Tell Us
  Musicking
  Musicking on the Transcendental Taskscape
  VIII. Afterward
  Evolution, Emergence, and History: A Final Note.