Music and meaning, ambiguity and evolution
By Ian Cross. 2005
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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental Biology, Social Psychology
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- Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children (2013, background): “…as it permits specific, but not necessarily uniformly emotional experiences to peacefully coexist, and thus promotes accord between players (Cross, 2005); flexibility, a prerequisite for keeping in pace with the highly dynamic nature of the musical interaction; and disinterest, derived…”
- The evolutionary nature of musical meaning (2009, background): “Music is a foundational component of the human communicative toolkit, having powers in situations where language may be inefficacious; language and music are perhaps best conceived of as extending towards each other from opposite poles on a continuum of specificity of meaning (Cross, 2005).”
- Musicality and the human capacity for culture (2008, background): “…underlies Owings and Morton’s (1998) “management-assessment” approach appears directly parallel to Sperber and Wilson’s (1986) notion of human communication as being “ostensive-inferential”, where the aim of an act of communication is to change a listener’s cognitive environment (see Cross, 2005).”
- Music as a communicative medium (2009, background): “…interpreted as having played a significant role in the evolutionary processes that resulted in the emergence of modern humans, in facilitating our extraordinary social and cognitive flexibility, and as continuing to play that role in consolidating and sustaining those flexibilities (Cross, 2005).”