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Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution

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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… Click to show full abstract

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.

Keywords: music; music making; collective music; variation collective; cultural variation

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2021

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