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A million years of music : the emergence of human modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomlinson, Gary (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Zone Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Music > History and criticism.
Musicology.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Some first principles
  • 2. 1,000,000 years ago : Acheulean performances
  • 3. 500,000 years ago : lower Paleolithic voices
  • Excursus : social intelligence, baboon minds, and connectionist cognition
  • 4. 250,000 years ago : Neanderthal digitalization
  • 5. 100,000 years ago : symbolic et non
  • 6. 100,000
  • 20,000 years ago, I : Homo sapiens and the falling out of modern culture
  • 7. 100,000
  • 20,000 years ago, II : musicking
  • 8. Afterward [sic]
  • Evolution, emergence, and history : a final note.