Musical Sounds, Motor Resonance, and Detectable Agency

This paper discusses the paradox that while human music making evolved and spread in an environment where it could only occur in groups, it is now often apparently an enjoyable asocial phenomenon. Here I argue that music is, by definition, sound that we believe has been in some way organized by a hu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacques Launay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2015-09-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i1-2.4579