Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

H Qirko - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human musicality (the capacity to make and appreciate music) is difficult to explain in
evolutionary terms, though many theories attempt to do so. This paper focuses on …

Music in the Middle: A Culture-Cognition-Mediator Model of Musical Functionality

NR Fram - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Music is both universal, appearing in every known human culture, and culture-specific, often
defying intelligibility across cultural boundaries. This duality has been the source of debate …