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The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture

The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture

Jan, Steven

Hardcover

Music Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0754655946
ISBN13: 9780754655947
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 28 2007
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Richard Dawkins's formulation of the meme concept in his 1976 classic The Selfish Gene has inspired three decades of work in what many see as the burgeoning science of memetics. This study is the first musicologically-orientated attempt systematically to apply the theory of memetics to music. In contrast to the two points of view normally adopted in music theory and analysis - namely those of the listener and the composer - the purpose of this book is to argue for a distinct and illuminating third perspective. The perspective is that of the (selfish) replicated musical pattern itself, and adopting it is central to memetics.

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