A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
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音乐的一百万年：人类现代性的出现
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2015
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Gary A. Tomlinson
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Gary A. Tomlinson
音乐的起源是什么？在过去的几十年里，新的考古学证据和认知科学、语言学和进化论领域的发展重新激活了这个数百年的谜题。在这本开创性的书中，著名音乐学家加里·汤姆林森从这些领域出发，为人类音乐的出现构建了一个新的叙事。汤姆林森从远在智人或音乐存在之前很久的人类史前时期开始，描述了通过改变前人类物种的交流和社会而逐渐获得的成就，为更近的时代的音乐行为奠定了基础。他在尼安德特人和早期智人中追溯了这些能力的积累和发展，并详细描述了他们在过去100年里融入现代音乐行为的细节。但《一百万年的音乐》不仅仅是关于音乐的。汤姆林森建立了一个人类进化模型，它修订了我们对生物和文化在进化时间尺度上相互作用的理解，挑战并丰富了我们深厚历史的现有模型。在讲述他的故事时，他谈到了其他新兴的人类特征：语言、象征主义、形而上学的想象及其引发的仪式、复杂的社会结构，以及先进技术的使用。汤姆林森的进化模型使他在很大程度上解释了是什么使我们成为当今世界上一个独特的物种，并提供了一种新的方式来理解现代形式的人类的外观。
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In this path-breaking book, renowned musicologist Gary Tomlinson draws from these areas to construct a new narrative for the emergence of human music. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehumen species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia. But A Million Years of Music is not about music alone. Tomlinson builds a model of human evolution that revises our understanding of the interaction of biology and culture across evolutionary time-scales, challenging and enriching current models of our deep history. As he tells his story, he draws in other emerging human traits: language, symbolism, a metaphysical imagination and the ritual it gives rise to, complex social structure, and the use of advanced technologies. Tomlinson's model of evolution allows him to account for much of what makes us a unique species in the world today and provides a new way of understanding the appearance of humanity in its modern form.