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. 2022 Nov 10:45:e262.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22001212.

Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory

Psyche Loui  1   2 , Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis  1   2
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Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory

Psyche Loui et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

We argue that music can serve as a time-sensitive lens into the interplay between instrumental and ritual stances in cultural evolution. Over various timescales, music can switch between pursuing an end goal or not, and between presenting a causal opacity that is resolvable, or not. With these fluctuations come changes in the motivational structures that drive innovation versus copying.

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