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Routledge The Memetics of Music: Neo-Darwinian Musical Structure - Routledge

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Explore how memetics theory reshapes our understanding of musical culture and composition through this comprehensive Routledge academic text. Building on Richard Dawkins's groundbreaking meme concept from The Selfish Gene, this book examines music as a system of cultural replicators transmitted through imitation and subject to evolutionary pressures. The work synthesises three decades of memetics research to demonstrate how musical structures spread, mutate, and evolve within communities. By applying neo-Darwinian principles to musical theory and performance, the author reveals the mechanisms underlying how melodies, rhythms, and compositional techniques persist and transform across generations. This essential resource bridges evolutionary biology and musicology, offering musicians, theorists, and scholars a fresh framework for understanding why certain musical elements endure whilst others fade, and how cultural transmission shapes the music we create and hear today.

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Applies Dawkins's meme theory to musical structure, explaining how cultural musical units replicate and evolve like biological genes.

Synthesises thirty years of memetics research to establish music as a system of transmissible cultural replicators subject to evolutionary change.

Bridges musical theory and neo-Darwinian evolution, providing composers and theorists with a scientific framework for understanding musical development.

Published by Routledge, an established academic publisher specialising in music theory, composition, and performance studies.

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28 September 2007
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