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AAWM 2018 welcomes submissions that examine world musical traditions from any analytical and theoretical angles, including (but not limited to) ethnographic, historical, formal, computational, and cognitive perspectives. Submission formats include papers, posters, special sessions, lecture-recitals, and workshops. The rich musical heritage of the world is receiving increasing attention in ethnomusicology, music theory and analysis, music history, music psychology, and music informatics. Analytical Approaches to World Music 2018 is the fifth in a series of conferences that bring together scholars to explore the panoply of global musical traditions, both past and present, that lie outside the purview of Western Art Music, from the broadest possible array of theoretical, cultural, historical and analytical perspectives, in order to foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue and promote new approaches and methods. It will meet jointly with the 8 th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2018). AAWM 2018 welcomes submissions that examine world musical traditions from any analytical and theoretical angles, including (but not limited to) ethnographic, historical, formal, computational, and cognitive perspectives. Submission formats include papers, posters, special sessions, lecture-recitals, and workshops.
Chapter 2 Root , leaf , blossom , or bole : Concerning the origin and adaptive function of music
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In an earlier survey of ideas about the adaptive function of art (Dissanayake 1994), I invoked the old analogy of blind men examining an elephant to describe what kind of creature it is. The concept of art, I said, is similarly composed of a variety of features, some as different from one another as the elephant's trunk from its ear or tail. Yet to discuss the subject of art's function (or origin) cogently, we need to know what it is that we are referring to-we need to have an idea of the larger whole. It is the same with 'music', which-like 'art'-is not a word or concept in many human societies, even ones that conspicuously engage in what we would call music or art. Like the editors and other contributors to the present volume, my subject here is music as a component of communicative musicality, a term that offers a new way of thinking about that complex, manyfaceted entity that we call music. As the essays in this volume seek to demonstrate, musicality is a...