BOOK

Theorizing music evolution : Darwin, Spencer, and the limits of the human

Piilonen, Miriam, author

2024

Overview

\"Theorizing Music Evolution is a critical examination of ideas about musical origins, emphasizing both nineteenth-century theories of music in the evolutionist writings of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. What did historical evolutionists such as Darwin and Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways have they endured in present-day music research? Author Miriam Piilonen argues for the significance of Victorian music-evolutionism in lights of its ties to a recently revitalized subfield of evolutionary musicology. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to music theorizing, Piilonen explores how historical thinkers constructed music in evolutionist terms and argues for an updated understanding of music as an especially fraught area of evolutionary thought\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Criticism and interpretation. / Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 Criticism and interpretation. / Music Origin. / Evolution.
• ISBN: 9780197695289

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML3800 .P496 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE