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Music is significant in some cultures for its social function from life to death

Blacking, John. . How musical is man? / John Blacking. 0571107907 series London : Faber and Faber, 1976.
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM ML3838 .B6 1976


belongs to Towards a biocultural musicology project
tagged death life music relationship social by ncrimes ...on 01-OCT-08
"Music fulfils a wide range of functions in different societies, in entertainment, ritual, healing and in the maintenance of social and natural order" (1:Cross 2008)

"music and language" Annual review of anthropology [0084-6570]

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS (Management of) - a function performed by all music - "music's inability to express unambiguous meaning underwrites its powers to manage situations of social uncertainty" (2)

HONEST SIGNALLING- "revealing the the receiver qualities of the signaller that are relevant to the communicative situation" (3) " Music, as an expression of emotion, constitutes an 'honest signal' in revealing to a listener qualities of the music's producer that are necessarily concomitant on the nature of the signal" (3)

MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE - Music can affect and control moods more effectively than other methods.

MANAGEMENT-ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK - Animals make sounds to manage  "their physical and social envireonments rather than to transmit information" (4)

EXPRESSIVE SIZE SYMBOLISM -  A small animal transmits a low frequency to "broadcast an impression of large size" (4)