Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories
Sam Passmore,
Anna L. C. Wood,
Chiara Barbieri
et al.
Abstract:Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is unresolved. Using a global musical dataset of 5242 songs from 719 societies, we identify five axes of musical diversity and show that music contains geographical and historical structures analogous to linguistic and genetic diversity. After creating a matched dataset of musical, genetic, and linguistic data spanning 121 societies cont… Show more
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