Week 2 (1/12-1/14) The Body: Evolutionary Psychology, "The Biology of Music-Making," and Musical Universals
Reading: All readings located in course reserve binder, call # DeWitt Mus950.01 PC-1, unless call number is explicitly given below.
Group A—Evolutionary Psychology
Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. 1992. "The Psychological Foundations of Culture," in The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, 19-136. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Group B—The Biology of Music-Making
Blacking, John. 1992. "The Biology of Music-Making," in Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, editor Helen Myers. The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music, New York, NY: W.W. Norton. ML3799.E826 1992.
Baily, John. 1992. "Music Performance, Motor Structure, and Cognitive Models," in European Studies in Ethnomusicology: Historical Developments and Recent Trends, editors Max Peter Baumann, Artur Simon, and Ulrich Wegner, 142-158. Intercultural Music Studies, series editor. Max Peter Baumann, 4. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag.
Blacking, John, editor. 1977. The Anthropology of the Body. Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph, 15. London: Academic Press.
pp. v-x, 1-28
Tolbert, Elizabeth. 1992. "Theories of Meaning and Music Cognition: An Ethnomusicological Approach." World of Music 34/3:7-21.
Group C—Musical Universals
Dowling, W. Jay, and Dane L. Harwood. 1986. Music Cognition. Academic Press Series in Cognition and Perception, San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
pp. 235-239
Meyer, Leonard B. 1960. "Universalism and Relativism in the Study of Ethnic Music." Ethnomusicology 4/2:49-54.
Becker, Judith. 1994. "Music and Trance." Leonardo Music Journal 4:41-52.
Rouget, Gilbert. 1977. "Music and Possession Trance," In The Anthropology of the Body, editor John Blacking, 233-239. Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph, 15. London: Academic Press.
___. 1985. Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.
(book review presentation)
Bibliography searches: The subject of your one-paragraph annotation should be, how does or can the reading contribute to cognitive ethnomusicology? If not, why not?