The Memetics of Music
A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4159136 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Vladimir J Konečni (University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia), J Konecni |
| Año | 2008 |
| Volumen | 48 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 463-465 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayn038 |
| OpenAlex | W2042647065 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
ACCORDING to Steven Jan, a University of Huddersfield musicologist, ‘[g]iven that memetics has assimilated a broad and deep theoretical base from its sister discipline evolutionary biology, it is inclined—on the grounds of the axiomatically rigorous and empirically endorsed authority of the latter—to make strong a priori claims about the nature of culture’ (p. 20). In this dense, thoughtful, and challenging book that often takes considerable risks, Jan advocates a neo-Darwinian, neo-organicist perspective on music. Having adopted the (anthropomorphically ‘selfish’) gene as the basic unit of natural selection (as opposed to species, group, and even the individual organism)–and thus the ‘gene's eye view’ of nature–Dawkins (1976, 1989) then coined meme, as a fragment of culture, ‘a unit of cultural transmission, or.... imitation’. Dawkins's examples included tunes, concepts, and fashions. The meme (or ‘memeplex’) of memetics was subsequently ‘replicated’ in the mostly partisan works by Dennett, Lynch, and Blackmore. Whether or not one agrees with Gould's assessment of memes as a ‘meaningless metaphor’ depends in part on whether one accepts the notion of broad applicability of the ‘maximally abstract’ logical structure of ‘universal Darwinism’ (Dawkins, Dennett, Plotkin), in which ‘cultural evolution is not (weakly) analogical to biological evolution... but is (strongly) parallel to it as an equal... member of a set of replicator systems operating on earth... (such as DNA molecules, alphabetical characters, musical sounds...), themselves subsumed by the cosmic ambit of universal Darwinism’ (p. 14
Art · Cognitive science · Darwinism · Epistemology · Evolutionary psychology · Linguistics · Literature · Memetics · Metaphor · Musical · Sociobiology · Sociology · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citas por año | 0,31 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |