A musical person. The history of life on Earth

Michael Spitzer offers to look at the history of music through the lens of biology, evolution, anthropology and colonialism. Moving between time layers and civilizations, he searches for the reasons for the musical hegemony of the West and the nature of individual genius. The author tries to recreate the past of music through the modern practices of indigenous peoples and imagine its future in the context of popular technologies, and at the same time localizes a person in musical time-space and, in fact, constructs the history of a musical person.