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1Department of Music & Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138, USA. vijayiyer@fas.harvard.edu; www.vijay-iyer.com.
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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