More Than A Feeling: An Analysis Of Contrasting Approaches To The Study Of Musical Emotions

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dc.contributorErlmann, Veit
dc.contributorBuskirk, Ruth
dc.creatorClegg, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-06T15:12:53Z
dc.date.available2018-06-06T15:12:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.description.abstractThe investigation of music and its ability to move us has captivated thinkers for millennia. In modern scholarship, the fields of ethnomusicology and evolutionary musicology represent two distinct attempts to unravel this mystery. The methods and assumptions guiding these disciplines often set them in opposition, exemplified by the contention surrounding the idea of musical universals. In this thesis, I investigate the history of each discipline and examine a sampling of contemporary scholarship in order to gain insight into the sources of this conflict. For ethnomusicology, I examine two recent ethnographies, and for evolutionary musicology I present a number of hypotheses across a variety of fields of scientific research. In conclusion, I outline some of the sources of their conflict and offer an understanding of the human capacity to communicate emotion through music that seeks to take the central principles of both disciplines into account.en_US
dc.description.departmentMusicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2HT2GV93
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/65240
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlan II Honors Theses - Openly Availableen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectPlan II Honors Thesis
dc.subjectethnomusicologyen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionary Musicologyen_US
dc.subjectMusical Emotionsen_US
dc.subjectmusicen_US
dc.subjectCross-cultural studyen_US
dc.titleMore Than A Feeling: An Analysis Of Contrasting Approaches To The Study Of Musical Emotionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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