Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
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Writing on music -- What is music? -- Where does music come from? -- Innateness -- Character -- Shape -- Transience -- Language -- Nature -- Folk music -- Art music -- Consumer music -- Creativity -- Music-making -- Mind -- Listening -- Ownership -- Prejudice and tolerance -- Religion -- Spirituality.
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"Music research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies--drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields--that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research"--