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. 2021 Sep 30:44:e79.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20001740.

What's not music, but feels like music to you?

Vijay Iyer  1
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What's not music, but feels like music to you?

Vijay Iyer. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

The category "music" as used in this area of science is inconsistent and unstable, and its logical relationship to the word "musicality" - used by scientists to denote the human capacity for music - is circular. Therefore, rather than pursue the question, "Why did music(ality) evolve?" let us ask more inclusively, "What experiences in humankind's deep past might have felt like music?"

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