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Choral Singing in Human Culture and Evolution

Choral Singing in Human Culture and Evolution

Jordania, Joseph

Paperback

Music Reference

ISBN10: 6630234359
ISBN13: 9786630234350
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 676
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why do humans sing together? When and why did choral singing emerge, and what role did it play in human evolution? In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Joseph Jordania argues that choral singing is not a late cultural invention but an ancient evolutionary adaptation that contributed to the survival of early humans. Placing the origins of choral singing within the broader contexts of music, language, speech, intelligence, and cognition, the book explores connections with the evolution of human communication, the distribution of stuttering and dyslexia, and the acquisition of phonological systems by children across cultures. Drawing on evidence from musicology, anthropology, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology, The Origins of Human Choral Singing presents a bold synthesis that challenges conventional theories and offers a new perspective on one of humanity's defining behaviors. Widely praised by leading scholars, the book has been described as a masterpiece of comparative musicology and a work that deserves attention across the human sciences.

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