Music as a ludic behaviour

• Grant number: 16/26101-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho
• Grantee: Nicholas Gialluca Domene
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project's objective is the analysis of the literature about the origin of music as a human behaviour, based on the 4 Tinbergen's questions (which demand explanations towards the mechanism, ontogeny, phylogeny and function of a behaviour) as first approach, later, arguing in favor of a revisitation of these theories based on new understations about the ludic behaviour. It intends to bring to discussion a new hypothesis that the human musical behaviour did not appear and sustained itself as a primary adaptation, rather it was a side effect of the development of other human cognitive areas, and that today's music came as a ludic behaviour, not with a specific function to the human being. It is not the objective to deny the importance of music in cultural development, but to deny it's blur when analyzed as a shadow of the verbal communication or as a hierarchical behaviour. (AU)