Universality and diversity in human song-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Universality and diversity in human song

Published:2019-11-22 Issue:6468 Volume:366 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Mehr Samuel A.¹²³^ORCID,Singh Manvir⁴^ORCID,Knox Dean⁵^ORCID,Ketter Daniel M.⁶⁷^ORCID,Pickens-Jones Daniel⁸^ORCID,Atwood S.²,Lucas Christopher⁹,Jacoby Nori¹⁰,Egner Alena A.²,Hopkins Erin J.²^ORCID,Howard Rhea M.²,Hartshorne Joshua K.¹¹^ORCID,Jennings Mariela V.¹¹,Simson Jan²¹²^ORCID,Bainbridge Constance M.²,Pinker Steven²^ORCID,O’Donnell Timothy J.¹³^ORCID,Krasnow Max M.²,Glowacki Luke¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Data Science Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

2. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3. School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

4. Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

5. Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

6. Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14604, USA.

7. Department of Music, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA.

8. Unaffiliated scholar, Portland, OR 97212, USA.

9. Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.

10. Computational Auditory Perception Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

11. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.

12. Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.

13. Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1A7, Canada.

14. Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.

Abstract

Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, and religiosity. There is more variation in musical behavior within societies than between societies, and societies show similar levels of within-society variation in musical behavior. At the same time, one-third of societies significantly differ from average for any given dimension, and half of all societies differ from average on at least one dimension, indicating variability across cultures. Science , this issue p. eaax0868 ; see also p. 944

Funder

National Science Foundation

NIH Office of the Director

Microsoft Research

Harvard University

Washington University in St. Louis

Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture

Harvard Data Science Initiative

Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Columbia University Center for Science and Society

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada