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Rethinking music's status as adaptation versus technology: a niche construction perspective

Rethinking music's status as adaptation versus technology: a niche construction perspective

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Rethinking music's status as adaptation versus technology: a niche construction perspective

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Rethinking music's status as adaptation versus technology: a niche construction perspective

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Abingdon: Routledge

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Ethnomusicology forum, 2016-05, Vol.25 (2), p.210-233

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English

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Abingdon: Routledge

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In this article I critique F. R. S. Lawson's evolutionary theorising about music that appeared in a recent issue of Ethnomusicology Forum. Moreover, I argue that asking whether music is an adaptation or technology, as Lawson does, artificially splits the interwoven, dynamic co-evolutionary forces at work. In my view, in cases of complex, dynamic co...

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Rethinking music's status as adaptation versus technology: a niche construction perspective

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1822410399

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1822410399

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1741-1912

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1741-1920

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10.1080/17411912.2016.1159141

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