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SUMMARY:Music evolution in the enchanted universe - Dor Shilton (Tel Aviv 
 University)
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nMusic evolution theories in the past two decades
  have mostly focused on human communication and social bonding. But a nota
 ble fact about music is that it is cross-culturally used to communicate wi
 th invisible beings and in religious contexts. What does this mean for a c
 ultural evolutionary theory of music\, and for the role of music in human 
 evolution? I will present several theoretical perspectives that can help i
 ncorporate the religious dimension into existing socio-functional theories
 . I will argue\, first\, that the structural features of music encourage a
  “participatory mentality” and displays of collective synchrony that a
 re beneficial for making invisible beings and collective representations f
 eel real and present\, and second\, that this can explain the remarkable p
 revalence and persistence of music across human societies.\n\n*Biography*\
 n\nDor Shilton is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cohn Institute for the Hist
 ory and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University\, a researc
 h affiliate of the School of Anthropology at Oxford University\, and a Ful
 bright fellow. His doctoral thesis\, co-supervised by Ian Cross\, concerne
 d the culturally-driven emergence of music as a participatory interaction 
 in human evolution.\n\n*Zoom link*\n\nhttps://zoom.us/j/99433440421?pwd=ZW
 xCQXFZclRtbjNXa0s2K1Q2REVPZz09 (Meeting ID: 994 3344 0421\; Passcode: 7142
 77)
LOCATION: Online
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