ANTH398D - Ethnomusicology

Meeting 10 – Adaptive

November 6, 2007

Cross

• From Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music• Careful/thoughtful• Refer to ethnomusicologists• Cultural insight• Nature/nurture

Conceiving Music

• Only that which corresponds to WAM understanding?

• Broader approach• Music integrating speech

Human Organisation of Sound

• Speech and music• Communication• Expression• Complexity

Anthropology

• Pinpointing human uniqueness• Anthropocentrism?• Subdisciplines• Human evolution and primatology• Closer to or further from other primates• Altriciality

Making Links

• Cognitive dimensions• Human uniqueness• Music participation

Community

• Togetherness• Socialisation– Sessions (jam, traditional)

• Synchronising• Edward T. Hall’s Dance of Life• “Proto-Music”

“This Is Our Song”

• Nostalgia• Shared experience• “Social memory”• Demetan example• Contextual meaning