Towards a multi-level selection framework for understanding trends in popular music

Abstract

This thesis proposes a metaphysical Multi-Level Selection model for memetics which is intended to be utilized in research ontrends inpopular music markets. The goal is for thismodel to be theinter-weavedresult, and expansionofDawkins’(1989)work on memetics,Wilson & Wilson’s (2008)work on Multi-Level Selection, and Pandora’s Music Genome Project (see (Castelluccio, 2006)). However, much ofthis thesis is focused on the philosophical discourse associated in attempting to intermix these disciplines.