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SUMMARY:Meaningful Music\, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History - Pro
 fessor Elizabeth Tolbert\, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute
DTSTART:20160122T180000Z
DTEND:20160122T191500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Antonio M. M. Rodrigues
DESCRIPTION:I suggest that the conditions of representation that allow for
  music to be\napprehended as socially and emotionally meaningful are biolo
 gically grounded in our evolutionary history. Specifically\, I propose tha
 t music emerged from the evolution of the human capacity for culture (Toma
 sello 1999\, 2005)\, and is a means of creating joint attentions and inten
 tions in order to achieve social goals.  The evolution of a uniquely human
  form of social intelligence resulted in human symbolic systems such as mu
 sic and language that give rise to an inherent phonocentrism (Derrida 1976
 )\, a perceived immediacy of vocally communicative sound. Although decades
  of ethnomusicological research have debunked the myth of music’s litera
 l unmediatedness\, I maintain that the experience of music’s immediacy\,
  indeed the experienced immediacy of any symbolic communication\, is what 
 allows it to be intelligible in the first place.​
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Old Combination Room
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