zoomusicology
Sign in to saveZoomusicology () is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals. It is a field of musicology and zoology, and is a type of zoosemiotics. Zoomusicology as a field dates to François-Bernard Mâche's 1983 book Music, Myth, and Nature, or the Dolphins of Arion (published in English in 1992), and has been developed more recently by scholars such as Dario Martinelli, David Rothenberg, Hollis Taylor, David Teie, and Emily Doolittle.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic major
- Subclass of
- bioacoustics
Show 1 more fact
- topic's main category
- Category:Zoomusicology
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Human-animal interactions
- Music produced by animals
- Birds
- Mimicry
- Functions and effects of music on animals
- Mammals
- Insects
- Auditory enrichment and therapeutic effects of music on animals
- Cats
- Cows
- Dogs
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Zoomusicology () is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals. It is a field of musicology and zoology, and is a type of zoosemiotics. Zoomusicology as a field dates to François-Bernard Mâche's 1983 book Music, Myth, and Nature, or the Dolphins of Arion (published in English in 1992), and has been developed more recently by scholars such as Dario Martinelli, David Rothenberg, Hollis Taylor, David Teie, and Emily Doolittle.
Zoomusicology is a separate field from ethnomusicology, the study of human music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zoomusicology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.