Papers

Publications

Full list of my papers you can see in the CV, provided on the first page of this website. Here are only a few selected papers, and only those that were published in English (from the newest to the oldest).

National Minorities, Traditional Polyphony, Cultural Policy and State Borders. In Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Sixth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 25-29, 2014. Editors: Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. Tbilisi State Conservatory, 2016:22-30.
New Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Origins of Traditional Polyphony. MUSICOLOGY: Journal of the Institute of Musicology of SASA (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts) Vol 18, Belgrade 2015, Pg. 77-98.
Comparative Study of Traditional Polyphony: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. In Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Sixth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 22-25, 2012. Editors: Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. Tbilisi State Conservatory, 2014:24-31.
Where Wine Was Born? Wine and Identity in Georgia. Written together with Matthew Harvey. In Wine and Identity: Branding, Heritage, Terroir. Edited by Matt Harvey, Leanne White and Warwick Frost. 2014. Routledge. London and New York. Pg. 71-86.
Comparative study of Traditional Polyphony: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In: Sixth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 24-29, 2012. Editors: Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. Tbilisi State Conservatory, 2014: 27-38.
Universals in the world’s musics. Written together with Steven Brown. Psychology of Music, 2013, 41(2): 229–48.
Sexual Selection or Natural Selection? New Look on the Evolution of Human Morphology, Behavior and Art.” Kadmos, 3. 2013:400-416.
Social Factor in Traditional Polyphony: Definition, Creation, and Performance. In: Multipart music: a specific mode of musical thinking, expressive behaviour and sound. Materials of the ICTM Polyphony Study Group conference, held in Sardinia, Italy, in 2010. Edited by Ignazio Macchiarella (ed.). 2012, 163-175 Nota, Udine (ISBN 9788861630925).
Traditional polyphony of Asia: Current Problems and Perspectives in Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Fifth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on October 4-9, 2010. Editors: Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. Tbilisi State Conservatory, 2012:24-31.
Should we teach students how to answer questions or how to ask questions? Towards a new educational strategy. Sutra the thread, A Quarterly Journal for Research on Education, Psychology, Traditional Sciences and Systems, Health and Consciousness. Vol. 8: 29-42. Materials of the International Congress “Revisiting Education Culture Learning and Training Formats for Human Empowerment,” (held in New Delhi, 14-18 January, 2010). New Delhi, 2011. Also you can see the abstract of the paper.

Asking or answering questions: Musing over the educational strategy for the future. Culture, Education, and Future, 1(1), 2023, 28-46.
Music as aposematic signal: predator defense strategies in early human evolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1271854. 2024. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1271854
Georgian Traditional Polyphony in Comparative Studies: History and Perspectives. In Echoes from Georgia: Seventeen Arguments on Georgian Polyphony. Edited by Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. New York: Nova Science, 2010: 229-248.
Georgian Polyphony in a Century of research. Co-authored with Rusudan Tsurtsumia. In Echoes from Georgia: Seventeen Arguments on Georgian Polyphony. Edited by Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. New York: Nova Science, 2010: xvii-xxii.
Music and Emotions: humming in Human Prehistory, in Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 15-19, 2008. Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania (Eds.), Tbilisi State Conservatory: 2010:41-49.
Times to Fight and Times to Relax: Singing and Humming at the Beginnings of Human Evolutionary History, Kadmos, 1, 2009, 272-277.
Origins of Rhythm and the Defense Strategy of Human Ancestors, in Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Third International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 25-29, 2006. Edited by Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania, pg. 47-65. Tbilisi State Conservatory: 2008 (in English and Georgian).
Interrogo Ergo Cogito: Responsorial Singing and the Origins of Human Intelligence, in Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the Second International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP International Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory on September 23-28, 2004. Edited by Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania. pg. 39-47. Tbilisi State Conservatory: 2005 (in English and Georgian).
Multidisciplinary Approach to the Problem of the Origins of Vocal Polyphony, in Problems of Traditional Polyphony. Materials of the First International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, held at the IRCTP Research Centre of Traditional Polyphony in Tbilisi on October 2-9, 2002. Edited by Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania, pg 79-89. Tbilisi State Conservatory: 2003 (in English and Georgian).
Stuttering in the Chinese Population in Some South-East Asian Countries: A Preliminary Investigation on Attitude and Incidence. Co writed with Prof. Sheree Reese (USA) and published as a part of the International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference, October 2001.
Georgian Folk-Singing: Its Sources, Emergence and Modern Development. International Social Science Journal, 1984, Vol. 36, No. 3: 537-549. Paris, UNESCO (in English, French, Spanish, Arabian, Chinese).