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Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: We argue that music can serve as a time-sensitive lens into the interplay between instrumental and ritual stances in cultural evolution. Over various timescales, music can switch between pursuing an end goal or not, and between presenting a causal opacity that is resolvable, or not. With these fluctuations come changes in the motivational structures that drive innovation versus copying.

Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22001212

Authors: Psyche Loui, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Institutions: Northeastern University, Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Language and cultural evolution

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Awards: Multimodal Musical Stimulation for Healthy Neurocognitive Aging, G3988351008, Collaborative Research: The Role of Narrative in Music Perception, SynchronyGamma: A Music-Based Intervention for Alzheimer's and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Gamma-Music Based Intervention for Mild Alzheimer's Disease