The evolution of music as artistic cultural innovation expressing intuitive thought symbolically

The evolution of music as artistic cultural innovation expressing intuitive thought symbolically

Music is an artistic cultural innovation, and therefore it may be considered as intuitive thought expressed in symbols, which can efficiently convey multiple meanings in learning, thinking, and transmission, selected for and passed on through cultural evolution. The symbolic system has personal adap...

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Main Author: Van Mulukom, V. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
Subjects:
art
Art
article
creativity
Creativity
cultural anthropology
Cultural Evolution
human
human experiment
Humans
learning
Learning
music
Music
thinking
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Summary:Music is an artistic cultural innovation, and therefore it may be considered as intuitive thought expressed in symbols, which can efficiently convey multiple meanings in learning, thinking, and transmission, selected for and passed on through cultural evolution. The symbolic system has personal adaptive benefits besides social ones, which should not be overlooked even if music may tend more to the latter. Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.
ISBN:0140525X (ISSN)
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X20001260

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