Joseph Jordania
Academic
1954 –
Who is Joseph Jordania?
Joseph Jordania is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is a 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.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1954
Tbilisi - Ethnicity
- Georgians
- Education
- University of Melbourne
- Tbilisi State Conservatory
- Tbilisi State University
- Lived in
- Melbourne
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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