From Beethoven to Beyoncé: Do Changing Aesthetic Cultures Amount to "Cumulative Cultural Evolution?"

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC8864182 · PMID 35222132

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Does Music Improve Over Time? Moving from general considerations of improvement in aesthetic value, we now consider how concepts of improvement and progress have been deployed in a highly significant area of human aesthetic culture – music.

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