The concept of cultural evolution was fundamental to the foundation of academic musicology
and the subfield of comparative musicology, but largely disappeared from discussion after …

Alan Lomax's Cantometrics Project was arguably both the most ambitious and the most
controversial undertaking in music and science that the world has known. Its flagship …

We present, to our knowledge, the first quantitative evidence that music and genes may
have coevolved by demonstrating significant correlations between traditional group-level …

Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific
understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This …

The comparison of world music cultures has been a recurring topic in the field of musicology
since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent advances in technology in the field of Music …

The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the availability and use of large music
corpora. However, most music corpus studies remain limited to Western music, limiting our …

Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers that has
played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres. Artists preferentially sample …

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole
story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive …

The comparative analysis of world music cultures has been the focus of several
ethnomusicological studies in the last century. With the advances of Music Information …

This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for
registering the Indian Ocean in ethnomusicology. We show how the human experiences of …