Understanding global diversity in music perception and production

2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

• Project/Area Number: 19KK0064
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: サベジ パトリック 慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部(藤沢), 准教授 (50821790)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 味見 純 東京藝術大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (00854184) ; 藤井 進也 慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部(藤沢), 准教授 (40773817) ; 徳井 直生 慶應義塾大学, 政策・メディア研究科(藤沢), 准教授 (70446277)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-10-07 – 2025-03-31
• Keywords: music / cognition / cross-cultural / evolution

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In FY2021 we published 3 articles in peer-reviewed journals (Current Biology; Science Advances; Evolution and Human Behavior) and 1 paper in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings (International Society for Music Information Retrieval), bringing our total published outputs to 9. We also had the book chapter reporting our KAKENHI-funded workshop officially accepted for publication by MIT Press (official publication estimated in FY2022) and a conference presentation based on this chapter accepted for presentation at ICTM 2022 July in Lisbon. We also submitted three major manuscripts for publication and posted preprints at the PsyArXiv preprint server: one on global diversity in music perception (Jacoby et al., 2021, PsyArXiv), the other two (supported by the postdoc hired for this year, Sam Passmore) on global diversity in music production (Wood et al., 2021, PsyArXiv; Passmore et al., 2022, PsyArXiv). Finally, our article preliminarily published in FY2020 (Savage et al., Behavioral and Brain Sciences) was officially published accompanied by 60 commentaries by 109 authors. Our Current Biology and Science Advances papers were also accompanied by commentaries from world experts (Hoeschele & Fitch, 2022, Current Biology; Greenhill, 2021, Science Advances). Overall we have had good success in pivoting from our initial plans to achieve high-impact research despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

We have continued to successfully pivot from our original plans of in-person symposia and experiments to using Zoom, online experiments, and other virtual workarounds to implement our research plans despite the ongoing impact of COVID-19.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

For the 2022 financial year, we have continuted to modify plans due to the pandemic's impact on travel and availability. We have submitted three major manuscripts comparing global variation in music perception (Jacoby et al., 2021
, PsyArXiv preprint) and production (Wood et al., 2021, PsyArXiv; Passmore et al., 2022, PsyArXiv), and will work in 2022 on revising and resubmitting based on reviewer feedback. We also continue to work on additional experiments and analyses in preparation regarding creativity, melody, harmony, cooperation, and music-language parallels.
Preliminary results will be presented at the International Council for Traditional Music (July 2022), Cultural Evolution Society world conference (August 2022), Society for Music Perception and Cognition (August 2022), and Joint Conference on Language Evolution (September 2022). We will continue to hold meetings between the investigators/collaborators (mostly online until the end of the pandemic).

Causes of Carryover

We have used up much of the backlog of funds created by the changes to our symposium due to the pandemic. But we still have some backlog left to use.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Max Planck Institute(ドイツ)
  • Country Name: GERMANY
  • Counterpart Institution: Max Planck Institute
• [Int'l Joint Research] Princeton University/University of California, San Diego/City University of New York(米国)
  • Country Name: U.S.A.
  • Counterpart Institution: Princeton University/University of California, San Diego/City University of New York
  • # of Other Institutions: 7
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Oxford/Reading University/University of London(英国)
  • Country Name: UNITED KINGDOM
  • Counterpart Institution: University of Oxford/Reading University/University of London
  • # of Other Institutions: 1
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Auckland/Victoria University of Wellington(ニュージーランド)
  • Country Name: NEW ZEALAND
  • Counterpart Institution: University of Auckland/Victoria University of Wellington
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of KwaZulu-Natal(南アフリカ)
  • Country Name: SOUTH AFRICA
  • Counterpart Institution: University of KwaZulu-Natal
• [Int'l Joint Research]
  • # of Other Countries: 6
• [Journal Article] Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution (2022)
  • Author(s): Savage, P. E., Passmore, S., Chiba, G., Currie, T. E., Suzuki, H., & Atkinson, Q. D.
  • Journal Title: Current Biology Volume: 32 Pages: 1395-1402
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.039
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in Northeast Asia (2021)
  • Author(s): Matsumae, H., Ranacher, P., Savage, P. E., Blasi, D., Currie, T. E., Sato, T., Koganebuchi, K., Nishida, N., Sato, T., Tanabe, H., Tajima, A., Brown, S., Stoneking, M., Shimizu, K. K., Oota, H., Bickel, B.
  • Journal Title: Science Advances Volume: 7 Pages: eabd9223
  • DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9223
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975-1999) (2021)
  • Author(s): Youngblood, M., Baraghith, K., & Savage, P. E.
  • Journal Title: Evolution and Human Behavior Volume: 42 Pages: 573-582
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.06.002
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Agreement among human and automated transcriptions of global songs (2021)
  • Author(s): Ozaki, Y., McBride, J., Benetos, E., Pfordresher, P., Six, J., Tierney, A. T., Proutskova, P., Sakai, E., Kondo, H., Fukatsu, H., Fujii, S., & Savage, P. E.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2021) Volume: 22 Pages: 500-508
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Building sustainable global collaborative networks: Recommendations from music studies and the social sciences (2022)
  • Author(s): Savage, P. E., Jacoby, N., Margulis, E. H., Daikoku, H., Anglada-Tort, M., Castelo-Branco, S. E.-S., Nweke, F. E., Fujii, S., Hegde, S., Chuan-Peng, H., Jabbour, J., Lew-Williams, C., Mangalagiu, D., McNamara, R., Mullensiefen, D., Opondo, P., Patel, A., & Schippers, H.
  • Organizer: 46th International Council for Traditional Music world conference
  • Int'l Joint Research