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Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

2023-03-21

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<p>Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is unresolved. Using a global musical dataset of 5,242 songs from 719 societies, we identify five axes of musical diversity and show that music contains geographical and historical structure analogous to linguistic and genetic diversity....

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Literature Corpus work: 27c575da-45e9-5798-ad9c-285575ef5028
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pty34

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