Joseph Jordania

Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania in 2011
Born	(1954-02-12) February 12, 1954 (age 70) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia)
Alma mater	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)
Scientific career
Fields	ethnomusicology, evolutionary musicology, evolutionary psychology, speech pathology
Institutions	University of Melbourne
Doctoral advisor	Grigol Chkhikvadze
Website	Joseph Jordania Website

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.