Review

Abstract

freedom, material abundance, and democracy' by way of a 'revived and revolutionized nationalism ' (p. 292), a civic nationalism based on an extra-statist broad national popular alliance which would, nevertheless, ultimately be connected to a future transformation of the state.In the end, many of Surin's suggestions about progressive prospects for the South look very familiar -control of capital movements, debt forgiveness, a shift from dependency on the production of primary commodities, regional blocs, the eventual abolition of the IMF and World Bank. All of this, together with his arguments about the novel role of finance today, the need to return to dependency theory, a plural and open Marxism that seeks to deepen its reflections on its own place and on the importance of the life-world -all of this is, to my mind, good, important stuff. However, I also feel that appeals to class overdetermination, the need to mobilize the international class struggle (p. 283), and so forth, in the absence of some detailed and up-to-date specification of class maps, class transformations, and possible class alliances, can threaten to leave the reader -however much he or she might be in agreement with the analysis and hopes -feeling a tad empty-stomached.

Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

“…Our analyses were not formally pre-registered. However, our predictions and results based on analysis of the sample of 4,125 English folk song melodies was previously published in 2017 as Chapter 3 from PES's PhD dissertation (75) prior to beginning any coding or analysis of the Japanese sample. We had originally planned to publish the English analysis by itself, but decided our claims that these mechanisms were crossculturally general would be more compelling if we could replicate our findings on a similar sample of unrelated non-Western songs.…”