ISBN:
9780191090486
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4842
Keywords:
Music--Origin
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Electronic books
Abstract:
'Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls' demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives.
Abstract:
Cover -- Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: What is music? What is this book about? -- 2 How the brain processes music -- 3 Brains and the evolution of Homo sapiens -- 4 Why do we have music as another communication system? -- 5 Music, altruism, and social cooperation -- 6 The consequences of owning a modern mind -- 7 Music, development, and education -- 8 Music, therapy, and old age -- 9 Coda: Homo sapientior? -- References -- Index.
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