PDF-(BOOS)-A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity (Zone Books)

A new narrative for the emergence of human music drawing from archaeology cognitive science linguistics and evolutionary theoryWhat is the origin of music In the last few decades this centuriesold puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science linguistics and evolutionary theory In this pathbreaking book renowned musicologist Gary Tomlinson draws from these areas to construct a new narrative for the emergence of human music Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that by changing the communication and society of prehumen species laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millenniaBut A Million Years of Music is not about music alone Tomlinson builds a model of human evolution that revises our understanding of the interaction of biology and culture across evolutionary timescales challenging and enriching current models of our deep history As he tells his story he draws in other emerging human traits language symbolism a metaphysical imagination and the ritual it gives rise to complex social structure and the use of advanced technologies Tomlinsons model of evolution allows him to account for much of what makes us a unique species in the world today and provides a new way of understanding the appearance of humanity in its modern form. 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Here are ten of the most heinous incidents in human history:. A sad commentary on humanity. Abraham Rinquist September 24, . 2016. . Genocide . Even the very definition of genocide is contested, but generally speaking, it refers to the intentional destruction of a particular race, ethnicity, religious group, or nationality. Genocides have occurred (and continue to occur) in every corner of the globe, in societies ancient and modern, for reasons as diverse as the acquisition of land and resources, to the demented hatred of a single man. Some scientists have even gone so far as to assert that genocide led to the extinction of Neanderthal man. Here are ten of the most heinous incidents in human history:. Over 6 million years . our ape-like ancestors evolved into upright walking, tool using and cultural modern humans, spreading out across the globe. There have been many different hominid species in the past, but only one – . And Race. Problem:. 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The volume addresses the study of world prehistory, the archaeological record, process of archaeological research, the dawn of humanity, the first humans and the origins of culture, the emergence of modern humans, the upper Paleolithic world, regional diversification, the evolution of food production, the rise of civilization and trends in world prehistory. For those interested in prehistoric humans and their culture. A virtual portable museum on the subject of human evolution--based on the fascinating displays featured in the new Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Maps, charts, timelines, sidebars. Over 125 illustrations, 55 in full color. This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. \'We learn\', Tudge writes, \'to think only in desperately trivial twinklings of time. . . But this contracted view of time is not merely comic. It is dangerous. \' The proper sense of time, he argues, is one that allows us to appreciate the world and see what we are doing to it. If humankind is to survive, we must UNLEARN most of what made us good at dominating our environment up to now. At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance—as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory, and that this imposes conceptual limitations. He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance. In tragedy, the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward, but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downs.Scott explores the political and epistemological implications of how the past is conceived in relation to the present and future through a reconsideration of C. L. R. James’s masterpiece of anticolonial history, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938. In that book, James told the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture and the making of the Haitian Revolution as one of romantic vindication. In the second edition, published in the United States in 1963, James inserted new material suggesting that that story might usefully be told as tragedy. Scott uses James’s recasting of The Black Jacobins to compare the relative yields of romance and tragedy. In an epilogue, he juxtaposes James’s thinking about tragedy, history, and revolution with Hannah Arendt’s in On Revolution. He contrasts their uses of tragedy as a means of situating the past in relation to the present in order to derive a politics for a possible future.