Theorizing Music Evolution

List of Figures

Introduction - Music and Evolution Revisited
The Revival of Evolutionary Musicology
Historicizing Music as a Deconstructed Thing
Evolutionary Claims are Ontological Claims
Book Structure and Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1 - Herbert Spencer Writes to Alfred Tennyson
Spencer the Evolutionist
Spencer Writes to Charles Darwin
The Shifting Terrain of Victorian Evolution Theories
Spencer's Earworm

Chapter 2 - Charles Darwin VS. Herbert Spencer on the Origins of Music
Music in Darwin's Early Notebooks and The Descent of Man
Music in Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Spencer's Theory of Music Perception
Spencer and Darwin's Entwined Theories of Music
A Debate Without a Winner

Chapter 3 - Sound Symbolism in Spencer's Evolutionary Thought
Spencer's Evolutionary Theory of Music - Basic Theses
Sound Symbolism as Imperial Metaphor in Spencer's Evolutionary Thought
Music and Language as Constructed through Theories of Origins
Plato's Contribution: Centering Sound Symbolism
Implications and Consequences of Spencer's Sound Symbolism
Evolutionary Voices and Non-Linear Histories

Chapter 4 - The Darwinian Musical Hypothesis
What is the Darwinian Musical Hypothesis?
Antoinette Brown Blackwell's Feminist Critique of Darwin
Problems with Applying Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection
Darwinian Musical Aesthetics
Against Adaptationism

Chapter 5 - Edmund Gurney's Darwinian Music Formalism
Gurney's Evolutionary Music Theory as Idealized Model
Gurney, Darwin, and Association
Problematizing Gurnian Formalism

Conclusion - Post-Darwinian Music Theory

A Personal Postscript
Acknowledgements
References
Index

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• História da Ciência
• Taxonomia e sistemática
• Teoria da música e musicologia