Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human

ISBN-13: 9780197695289 / Twarda / 2024 / 184 str.

Assistant Profe Miriam (Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Recenzje

Piilonen's book deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century thinking on music and evolution. She explores the nuances of Darwin's ideas on the topic and shows how his ideas are entwined with others such as Spencer and Gurney and enmeshed in English Victorian ideologies. Based on this analysis, Piilonen raises timely issues for contemporary research on the evolution of human musicality.

O autorze

Miriam Piilonen is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research has appeared in Critical Inquiry and Empirical Musicology Review, and her chapter "Music Theory and Social Media" appears in The Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory.