Implicit polyphony: A framework for understanding cultural complexity

• Published in: Culture & Psychology
• Main Author: Klempe, Sven Hroar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2017
• Subjects: Sociology and Political Science; Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Social Psychology; Ravel; Sámi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x17716390; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354067X17716390; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1354067X17716390

Musical terms like ‘polyphony’ are often applied in psychology and other disciplines in a more or less metaphorical way. However, this article investigates how polyphony can be applied in a non-metaphorical manner, i.e. in the same way, as it is understood in musicology. The fundamental hypothesis i...