What's not music, but feels like music to you?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (2021)
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Abstract

The category “music” as used in this area of science is inconsistent and unstable, and its logical relationship to the word “musicality” – used by scientists to denote the human capacity for music – is circular. Therefore, rather than pursue the question, “Why did music evolve?” let us ask more inclusively, “What experiences in humankind's deep past might have felt like music?”

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What's not music, but feels like music to you?Vijay Iyer - 2021 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44.

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