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The memetics of music : a neo-Darwinian view of musical structure and culture
- Title
- The memetics of music : a neo-Darwinian view of musical structure and culture / Steven Jan.
- Author
- Jan, Steven B., 1965-
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xvi, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268), and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : biological and socio-cultural evolution -- Memory, replication and style : memes in music I -- Replicating sonorities, replicating hierarchies : memes in music II -- Evolutionary dynamics : the selfish musical meme -- Cumulative selection and the evolution of large-scale design in music -- Memetics and musical analysis : issues and methodologies -- Conclusion: towards the memetics of music.
- ISBN
- 9780754655947 (alk. paper)
- 0754655946 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006101545
- 99820534673
- OCLC
- 77503974
- ocm77503974\
- SCSB-8415866
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries