Tbilisi State Conservatory, Tbilisi State University
Known for
The original model of the origins of choral singing in the context of human evolution; Notion of the "Battle trance"; Aposematic model of human evolution
Awards
Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology (2009), Centenary Medal of Australia (2003)
Joseph Jordania (Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954, and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor.[1][2] He is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne and the Head of the Foreign Department of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory. Jordania is known for his model of the origins of human choral singing in the wide context of human evolution and was one of founders of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony in Georgia.
Jordania's academic interests include study of worldwide distribution of choral polyphonic traditions, origins of choral singing, origins of rhythm, origins of human morphology and behaviour, cross-cultural prevalence of stuttering, dyslexia and acquisition of phonological system in children, study of the cognitive threshold between animal and human cognitive abilities. His primary expertise is Georgian and Caucasian traditional music and vocal polyphony.
^"Gelzer: Local Teacher Makes Mark On Georgian Folk Music". The Free Lance-Star. Nov 8, 2002. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
^Journal of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Issue 5. Muzikološki institut SANU. 2005. pp. 197, 198.
JosephJordania (Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954, and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist...
University of Cali Press. 1978. JosephJordania, 2011. Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution,pg 98-102 JosephJordania, 2011. Why do People Sing? Music...
resistance against wings in the actions of flying, especially of hovering. JosephJordania suggested that humming could have played an important role in the early...
one's eyebrows Eyelashes, a set of hairs on the edges of the eyelids JosephJordania, Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution, chapter "I Can See you...
mystical life of the circle of Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto and Hasidism. JosephJordania proposed the term "battle trance" in 2011 for a mental state when combatants...
Jordan, United States Army general Joseph A. Jordan Jr. (1924–1991), civil rights activist, lawyer and judge JosephJordania (born 1954), Australian-Georgian...
December 2015. Jordania, Joseph (2011). Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution. Logos. pp. 13–37. ISBN 978-9941-401-86-2. Jordania, Joseph (2011). Why...
departments", in: J. Coupland, (ed.) Small Talk, Pearson, Harlow UK. JosephJordania. "Times to fight and times to relax: Singing and humming at the beginning...
one cause of Neanderthal extinction was a less efficient running. JosephJordania from the University of Melbourne recently (2011) suggested that bipedalism...
frenzied effect that mirrors that of a fast and agitated musical passage. JosephJordania has suggested that music (as well as several other universal elements...
13 (5): 357–373. doi:10.1016/0094-730X(88)90004-6. Sheree Reese, JosephJordania (2001). "Stuttering in the Chinese population in some Southeast Asian...
Rhetorical silence targets an audience rather than the rhetorician. JosephJordania has suggested that in social animals (including humans), silence can...
divide a series of identical clock-ticks into "tick-tock-tick-tock". JosephJordania recently suggested that the sense of rhythm was developed in the early...
Governorate of Imperial Russia. According to Redjeb Jordania (born in 1921), son of Noe Jordania (Zhordania), his lineage traces back to three Italian...
participated in similar experiments, failed to ask questions themselves. JosephJordania suggested that the ability to ask questions is probably the central...
Unfit. JosephJordania (2006). Who Asked the First Question?: The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech. JosephJordania (2011)...
Panbanisha also have not demonstrated the ability to ask questions so far. JosephJordania suggested that the ability to ask questions could be the crucial cognitive...
Charles Darwin wrote about this in relation to wild horse and cattle. JosephJordania suggested that human humming could have played a function of contact...
from the original on 4 November 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2012. JosephJordania. Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution. Logos. Pg 17 "Homophonic"...
(1900–1947), historian Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), historian JosephJordania (born 1954), ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist (Australia)...
Dolidze, Leah, Christian Hannick, Dali Dolidze, Grigol Chkhikvadze, and JosephJordania. 2001. "Georgia". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,...
American actress and director 1954 – Zach Grenier, American actor 1954 – JosephJordania, Georgian-Australian musicologist and academic 1954 – Tzimis Panousis...
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