Wallin, Nils L.; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven

The Origins of Music

Preface ix Contributors xi I THE BEGINNING 1(24) An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology 3(22) Steven Brown Bjorn Merker Nils L. Wallin II VOCAL COMMUNICATION IN ANIMALS 25(126) Prolegomena to a Biomusicology 27(4) Simha Arom Origins of Music and Speech: Insights from Animals 31(18) Peter Marler Birdsong Repertoires: Their Origins and Use 49(16) Peter J.B. Slater What's Behind a Song? The Neural Basis of Song Learning in Birds 65(12) Carol Whaling The Sound and the Fury: Primate Vocalizations as Reflections of Emotion and Thought 77(26) Marc D. Hauser Gibbon Songs and Human Music from an Evolutionary Perspective 103(22) Thomas Geissmann Social Organization as a Factor in the Origins of Language and Music 125(10) Maria Ujhelyi The Progressively Changing Songs of Humpback Whales: A Window on the Creative Process in a Wild Animal 135(16) Katharine Payne III MUSIC, LANGUAGE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION 151(118) Can Biomusicology Learn from Language Evolution Studies? 153(12) Derek Bickerton Toward and Evolutionary Theory of Music and Language 165(12) Jean Molino Paleoneurology and the Biology of Music 177(20) Harry Jerison Hominid Brain Evolution and the Origins of Music 197(20) Dean Falk Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Speech Sounds 217(18) David W. Frayer Chris Nicolay New Perspectives on the Beginnings of Music: Archeological and Musicological Analysis of a Middle Paleolithic Bone ``Flute'' 235(34) Drago Kunej Ivan Turk IV THEORIES OF MUSIC ORIGIN 269(156) The ``Musilanguage'' Model of Music Evolution 271(30) Steven Brown How Music Fixed ``Nonsense'' into Significant Formulas: On Rythm, Repetition and Meaning 301(14) Bruce Richman Synchronous Chrousing and Human Origins 315(14) Bjorn Merker Evolution of Human Music through Sexual Selection 329(32) Geoffrey Miller Simulating the Evolution of Musical Behavior 361(28) Peter Todd Antecedents of the Temporal Arts in Early Mother-Infant Interaction 389(22) Ellen Dissanayake A Neurobilogical Role of Music in Social Bonding 411(14) Walter Freeman V UNIVERSALS IN MUSIC 425(56) Human Processing Predispositions and Musical Universals 427(22) Sandra Trehub The Question of Innate Competencies in Musical Communication 449(14) Michel Imberty An Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Universals in Musical Sound and Musical Culture 463(10) Bruno Nettl The Necessity of and Problems with a Universal Musicology 473(8) Francois-Bernard Mache VI THE END OF THE BEGINNING 481(4) Listening to Music 483(2) Author Index 485(10) Subject Index 495