
The Musical Human
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Content
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Part One Life
- Chapter 1 Voyager
- Some Preliminaries
- 300 years ago
- 500 years ago
- 800 years ago
- 1,700 years ago
- 2,000 years ago
- The Big Idea
- The First Timeline: Life
- The Second Timeline: Music in World History
- The Third Timeline: The Evolution of Music
- Postscript: The Musical Posthuman?
- Chapter 2 Cradle and All
- Beginnings
- Complexities
- Against Mozart: The Venda Life
- The Invention of the Teenager
- The Pact
- The Other Way
- Death
- Chapter 3 The Soundtrack of Our Lives
- Whistle While You Work
- Soundtracks
- World City of Music
- All Together Now
- The Case for Classical
- The Temple and the Cave
- Chapter 4 Imaginary Landscapes, Invisible Cities
- The Mysteries of the Musical Space-motion Continuum
- Motion Conveys Emotion
- What Darwin has to teach us about musical emotion
- The Double Life of Music
- Schubert's Fear
- Mimesis
- The Spiritual Path
- Gateway to Part Two
- PART TWO HISTORY
- Chapter 5 Ice, Sand, Savannah and Forest
- The Portability Principle
- 2.6 million years ago: Pleistocene, Lower Paleolithic
- 40,000 bc: Upper Paleolithic, Ice Age
- 25,000 bc: Last Glacial Maximum
- 2000 bc: Neolithic
- 1700 bc: Bronze Age
- Hunter-Gatherers
- Sedentary Music*
- The Maya
- Chapter 6 The Tuning of the West
- A Lesson in Ancient Music Theory
- Singing to the Moon
- Blinded by the Sun
- The Great Trump
- Tragedy!
- Gonzo Fiddles While George Burns
- Chapter 7 Superpowers
- And With a Chant to Bind Them
- Point Counter Point
- News from Elsewhere
- The Path of Ornament
- The Path of Taste
- Raga
- Meditation
- Rasa
- Evolution
- The Path of Nature
- The Road of Silk and Horses
- Chapter 8 Endgames
- Renaissances
- The Crimes of Colonialism
- The Black Atlantic
- From J to K
- Windows into Part Three
- PART THREE EVOLUTION
- Chapter 9 Animal
- 800 million years ago
- 165 million years ago
- 66 million years ago
- 50 million years ago
- Insects
- Birds
- But is it Art?
- Whales
- The Silence of the Apes
- Putting It All Together
- Stage 1 Crickets
- Stage 2 Chaffinch and white-crowned sparrow
- Stage 3 Mockingbird, canary, red-winged blackbird
- Stage 4 Humpback whale
- Stage 5 Humans
- Chapter 10 Human
- Stage 2: Lucy Walking, 3.2 Million Years Ago
- Stage 3: Palaeolithic Rhythms, 1.5 Million Years Ago
- Stage 4: Protomusic, 500,000 Years Ago
- Stage 5: Hmmmmm? 250,000 Years Ago
- The Magic Flute, 40,000 Years Ago
- Being Homer
- Chapter 11 Machine
- The Musical Transhuman
- The Musical Posthuman
- The Most Beautiful Music in the Universe
- Chapter 12 Eleven Lessons on Music's Nature
- Lesson 1: Animal Nature
- Lesson 2: Human Nature
- Lesson 3: Culture as Nature
- Lesson 4: The Harmony of Nature
- Lesson 5: Contrapuntal Nature
- Lesson 6: Killing Nature
- Lesson 7: Organic Nature
- Lesson 8: Spectating Nature
- Lesson 9: The Nature of Time
- Lesson 10: Death of the Musical Human
- Lesson 11: Postlude for the Posthuman
- Notes
- Index
- Picture Credits
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Copyright Page
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