Biomusicology: Neurophysiological, neuropsychological and evolutionary perspectives on the origins and purposes of music
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Biomusicology: Neurophysiological, neuropsychological and evolutionary perspectives on the origins and purposes of music
- Jaar:
- 1992
- Taal:
- Onbepaald
- Uitgever:
- New York Pendragon Press 1992
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.SCI WALL (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 0945193203
- Paginering:
- 582 pages
- Samenvatting:
- Since the 1960s, Swedish musicologist Nils Wallin has been exploring man's biological inheritance and its relationship to music. This book, the culmination of these many years of investigation, offers a musicological interpretation of recent r esearch in neurophysiology and paleobiology. A model of music as a natural system which serves as a foundation for the understanding of our musical mind, its capacity, and its phylogenetic roots is proposed. And a unified bio-socio-cultural field theory of music is presented. It is here argued that music creates structures which develop and grow in a manner not unlike the processes controlling the growth of organisms. Thus, music as a system is conditioned by biological microsystems, as well as superi or macrosystems of a more complex nature, such as the flow of consciousness and social, political, and economic systems-a natural synergetic system.Wallin's discourse encompasses-1) the musical consequences of cerebral functional asymmetry; 2) the h ierarchic and selective organization ofperceptual-cognitive auditory processes; 3) reticular-limbic responses to musical stimuli interpreted as synapse-modifying mechanisms for long-term motivation and learning, as well as for phylogentical learning; 4 ) the question of remnants or retentions with roots in the sound-gestures of other vertebrates of a higher order (and not solely the non-human primates) being active in the innermost structure of music; 5) vocalization techniques, e.g., the kölni ng technique of the late Paleolithic herding culture of Europe, as paleobiological retention; 6) the epistemological perspective of models of life-processes as discussed in recent scientific research.
- Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000014329
