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Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

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Ian Cross*
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Faculty of Music, Centre for Music & Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DP, UK. ic108@cam.ac.uk; https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/ian-cross
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Abstract

Both papers – to different degrees – underplay the interactive dimensions of music, and both would have benefited from integrating the concept of attachment into their treatments of social bonding. I further suggest that their treatment of music as a discrete domain of human experience and behaviour weakens their arguments concerning its functions in human evolution.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e66
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