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Joseph Jordania is a Georgian musicologist (born 12 February, 1954) now living and working in Australia. His primary sphere of expertise is choral singing, particularly the vocal and polyphonic traditions of the Caucasus. His 2006 book "Who asked the First Question? The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech" received a Fumio Koizumi Award in Ethnomusicology in 2009. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Professor, Head of the Foreign Department of the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory.