Cross-cultural aspects of rhythm production and perception (Monday 5 November, 11:00-14:00, in 1440).

Our guests (on teleconference) will be Dr. Nori Jacoby and Dr. Rainer Polak from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. We will discuss their work on the interaction between culture and perception, in the light of more general readings of rhythm perception.

Readings for the seminar are:

Honing, Henkjan. "Structure and interpretation of rhythm in music." In The Psychology of Music (Third Edition), pp. 369-404. 2013.
Jacoby, Nori, and Josh H. McDermott. "Integer ratio priors on musical rhythm revealed cross-culturally by iterated reproduction." Current Biology 27, no. 3 (2017): 359-370.
Polak, Rainer. "Uneven is not irregular: Asymmetric meter in music from Mali", chapter to be published in Oxford Handbook of Time in Music. Media files can be accessed on dropbox.

Assignment:

Summarize the above readings in separate sections of one text. This summary may be short, and the goal is to serve as support for the seminar. Therefore, focus on the aspects you found most remarkable, or you had difficulties with.

Before the seminar, please upload the assignment to the discussion of the seminar.