Veranstaltungen
Veranstaltungsreihe: Collegium Musicologicum
Vortrag
Iconicity and the Sociality of Musical Form: An Evolutionary Story
Termine
Do., 15.07.2021 18:00 UhrStandort
Am Kupfergraben 5.Institutsgebäude Eintritt
frei Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory)
Iconicity and the Sociality of Musical Form: An Evolutionary Story
Iconicity and the Sociality of Musical Form: How might an evolutionary approach inform what and how music
‘means’?
In this talk, I propose that musical meaning is grounded in the
experience of so-called ‘unmediated’ vocality, and that this
‘unmediatendness’ is symbolically represented as iconic of
ethological signals that have continuities with communicative vocality
in other non-human species. Following Millikan (2004), I further propose
that meaning is grounded in behavior, i.e., meaning is based on ‘what
to do’ in a communicative context. Furthermore, the bi-directionality
of human communication (Tomasello 2014), i.e., the reciprocal
understanding of others’ goals and intentions, it what allows for
music to be understood as iconic in the first place. Thus, the
iconicity of musical form and its attendant recursion are emergent from
social intelligence more generally.
Elizabeth Tolbert is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Peabody
Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment
in the Department of Anthropology. She is also a Research Affiliate at
the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge, and was a
Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge for 2018-19. Her
interdisciplinary theoretical interests and publications cover a broad
range of topics, including music and evolution, feminist theory and
gender, music and language ideologies, ritual, and music cognition; she
has done fieldwork in Finland, Karelia, and at the Peabody Conservatory,
Maryland, USA. Tolbert has received grants from the ACLS, the NEH, and
Fulbright. Her service in the Society for Ethnomusicology includes SEM
Council (1995-97; 2002-04), co-founder and co-chair(with Deborah Wong)
of the SEM Committee on the Status of Women (1996-1998), and she has
recently served as Vice President of the Society (2016-18).
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Weitere Informationen
Veranstalter: Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft
Referenten: Elizabeth Tolbert
Kontakt
Dr. Sydney Hutchinson
Telefon: 030 2093-2062
hutchins@hu-berlin.de
Adresse
Am Kupfergraben 5.Institutsgebäude
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