ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021
Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution.
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- Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Article
- Music as a window into real-world communication.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Music production and its role in coalition signaling during foraging contexts in a hunter-gatherer society.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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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.
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