Two Servants, One Master: The Common Acoustic Origins of the Divergent Communicative Media of Music and Speech
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Nicholas Bannan
Abstract
This article explores and examines research in the field of human vocalization, proposing an evolutionary sequence for human acoustic perception and productive response. This involves updating and extending Charles Darwin’s 1871 proposal that musical communication predated language, while providing the anatomical and behavioral foundations for the articulacy on which it depends. In presenting evidence on which a new consensus regarding the emergence of human vocal ability may be based, we present and review contributions from a wide range of disciplines, illustrating that the phenomenon of human musicality may have had more of a core function in shaping our anatomy and culture than has hitherto been recognized. Essential to the adaptive sequence on which this depends is human perceptual and productive response to the properties of the Harmonic Series. Both music and language have emerged from the auditory and performative consequences of this relationship.
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- Horror Manga: An Evolutionary Literary Perspective
- Two Servants, One Master: The Common Acoustic Origins of the Divergent Communicative Media of Music and Speech
- Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance
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- Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters
- What Nature Gave Us: Steven Pinker on the Rules of Reason
- BOOK REVIEWS
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- Mathias Clasen. A Very Nervous Person’s Guide to Horror Movies
- James E. Cutting. Movies on our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement
- Jonathan Gottschall. The Story Paradox: How our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
- Emelie Jonsson. The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature
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- ARTICLE REVIEWS
- Audiovisual Media
- Imagination
- Law
- Literature
- Music
- Neuroaesthetics
- Paleoaesthetics
- Politics and Ideology
- Popular Culture
- Contributors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- ARTICLES
- Horror Manga: An Evolutionary Literary Perspective
- Two Servants, One Master: The Common Acoustic Origins of the Divergent Communicative Media of Music and Speech
- Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance
- Evolution, “Pseudo-science,” and Satire: Edith Wharton’s “The Descent of Man”
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- Ancient Voices, Contemporary Practice, and Human Musicality
- Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters
- What Nature Gave Us: Steven Pinker on the Rules of Reason
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Steven Brown. The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why
- Mathias Clasen. A Very Nervous Person’s Guide to Horror Movies
- James E. Cutting. Movies on our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement
- Jonathan Gottschall. The Story Paradox: How our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
- Emelie Jonsson. The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature
- J. L. Modern. Neuromatic; or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain
- ARTICLE REVIEWS
- Audiovisual Media
- Imagination
- Law
- Literature
- Music
- Neuroaesthetics
- Paleoaesthetics
- Politics and Ideology
- Popular Culture
- Contributors
