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Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology: Nature vs. Culture
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Venue Name: University of Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
City: London
State: UK
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Keywords: Academics, Humanities, Music, Professors, Students
Start Date of Conference:: 07-21-2010
End Date of Conference: 07-24-2010
Description of Conference: The conference aims to bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on culture and nature in music. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute theoretical, empirical and computational studies.
The following topic areas illustrate the scope of the conference theme:
1. Music’s evolutionary origins
2. Cross-cultural comparison of musical phenomena
3. Linguistic influences on music cognition
4. How culture and biology shape the phenomenal experience of musical
expectation
5. Biological and cultural influences on the experience of emotions with
music
6. Relationship between emotional experience with music and emotions in
daily life
7. Development of musical skills
8. Musical universals and musical specializations
9. Cognitive and physical constraints shaping musical materials and
compositional practices
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