Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory

Psyche Loui; Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001212

Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory

Psyche Loui
, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Music

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We argue that music can serve as a time-sensitive lens into the interplay between instrumental and ritual stances in cultural evolution. Over various timescales, music can switch between pursuing an end goal or not, and between presenting a causal opacity that is resolvable, or not. With these fluctuations come changes in the motivational structures that drive innovation versus copying.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e262
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	45
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001212
State	Published - Nov 10 2022

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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