Publications by authors named "Daniel Pickens-Jones"
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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Daniel Pickens-Jones"
- Daniel Pickens-Jones investigates the intersection of universality and diversity in human music, exploring how musical behaviors manifest across different societies and contexts.
- His research comprises a detailed ethnographic corpus and a comprehensive discography, uncovering that music appears in every observed society and varies significantly within societies along dimensions such as formality and arousal.
- The findings indicate that while certain acoustic features and tonality may be universal, rhythmic and melodic complexities show significant variation, adhering to identifiable power laws across global musical expressions.