PSY274H5 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 (week 11)
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Lecture 9 (week 11)- music and human communication. We need to think about music in its unprofessionalized form. Division of individuals into experts (performers) and nonexperts (audiences/consumers) is a recent development in human history and specific to certain societies. Is music a form of communication: does music fit a standard definition of communication? recall the communication chain language undoubtedly fits into this framework. In some ways, but not a complete match: ex. Singing to yourself (no recipient: jamming with friends, instrumental music agents & recipients are same, transmission by different agents can be synchronous, rather than alternating not like in talking where there is turn-taking, ex. Some (non-western) cultures: music typically takes form of collective (group) engagement involving movement, rarely one to one transmission. Interesting side note: some languages lack separate terms for music and dance. Other differences: the message in music is often known in advance/ it is scored or scripted(ex.
