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Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Conceiving Music in Prehistory
Introduction
Conceptualizing music and prehistory
The organization of the book
2. Implications of Music in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
Introduction
Native Americans of the plains (Blackfoot and Sioux)
African Pygmies of the equatorial forest (Aka and Mbuti)
Australian Aborigines of the Western Desert (Pintupi)
The Eskimo of south-west Alaska (Yupik) and Canada (Inuit)
Conclusions
Some common features in the uses and nature of music in four hunter-gatherer societies
Methods and materials of construction of instruments: implications for the archaeological record
3. Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 1: Pipes
Introduction
Introduction to the Upper Palaeolithic
Introduction to Palaeolithic pipes
The earliest reputed pipes
Mousterian musicianship?
Upper Palaeolithic pipes
The Swabian Alb (Geissenklösterle, Hohle Fels, Vogelherd)
Isturitz
Other sites
Representations of instruments
The use of bone for instrument manufacture in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
Raw material availability?
Neanderthal use of avian fauna for subsistence and as a raw material
Use of avian fauna and technological limitations
Use of avian fauna due to environmental stress
Cultural revolution?
4. Palaeolithic Music Archaeology 2: Other Sound-Producers
Introduction
Other aerophones
Phalangeal whistles
Bullroarers (free aerophones)
Percussive instruments
Rasps (scraped idiophones)
Struck percussion
Caves and lithophones
Music and dance in later prehistory
Archaeology conclusions
5. The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 1: Vocal Anatomy
Introduction
The vocal apparatus and fossil evidence for its evolution
The larynx and basicranial flexion
The hyoid bone and mandible
The hypoglossal canal and tongue
Vertebral innervation, intercostal musculature, and breathing control
Some previous explanations for increased tonal range
Conclusions
6. The Palaeoanthropology of Vocalization 2: The Brain and Hearing
Introduction
Evidence for the evolution of vocal control in the brain
Fossil endocasts
Neurology of vocal production in primates and humans
The ear, sound perception, and evolution
Conclusions
7. Neurological Relationships Between Music and Speech
Introduction
Hemispheric organization: language in the left brain, music in the right?
Identifying functional neuroanatomy: brain scanning and neuropathology
Speech and melody production
Processing of tonal information in music and speech
Tonal and rhythmic information processing
Does the brain have a neurological modular specialization dedicated uniquely to music?
Conclusions
8. Vocal Versatility and Complexity in an Evolutionary Context
Introduction
Evidence for an inherited capacity for the perception of melody and rhythm
Early vocal behaviours in primate infants
Infant-directed speech, music, and vocalization
Proto-music/language: rationales for a shared ancestry
Social vocalization in primates
Evolutionary rationales for complexity of vocalization: proto-music, proto-language, and social vocalization
Conclusions
9. Vocal Control and Corporeal Control—Vocalization, Gesture, Rhythm, Movement, and Emotion
Introduction
Vocal content and manual gesture
Gesture and vocalization in infants
Gesture, vocalization, and meaning
Rhythm, corporeal movement, and emotion
Entrainment
Conclusions
10. Emotion and Communication in Music
Introduction
Intrinsic and extrinsic emotional content of music
Ecological context, social context, and the human in music
The human in music
Autism, Asperger and Williams syndromes
The role of the social context in which music is experienced
Physiological, neurological, and neurochemical correlates with the experience of emotion in music
Conclusions
11. Rationales for Music in Evolution
Introduction
Non-adaptive models of musical origins
Some adaptive rationales for the use of music
Music and group cohesion
Music and dance as a coalition signalling system
Music and sexual selection
Music and group selection
Music’s multiple meanings and cognitive development
Music and cognitive evolution
Cognitive modularity and symbolic thought
Mimesis, culture, and cognition
Enhanced Working Memory
Conclusions
12. Conclusions
The nature of music
Conceiving the foundations of music
A timeline for the emergence of musicality
Appendix
Table 1: Inventory of Palaeolithic reputed pipes and flutes
Table 2: Inventory of Palaeolithic objects originally reputed to be pipes and .utes but since deemed unlikely
Table 3: Inventory of Palaeolithic reputed phalangeal whistles
References
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