Chris Brooks
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Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 4 Oct 2004 5:12 am |
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Interesting bit on All Things Considered this morning as I drove to work. The question was, why do humans do art?
Early song, for example, may have been to reenforce, by repetition and rhythm, crucial knowledge--like where to find game when the waterholes were dry, or lines of kindship.
The researcher said that humans learn painlessly this way. She chuckled and remarked that she could, embarrassingly, remember the exact words to songs she heard over and over as a teen.
Then they played a bit of Waylon and Willy doing the rousing chorus of Momma's Don't Let Your Babies etc" complete with Mooney's classic answering riffs.
Nice thing to hear on the freeway as one drives to work! And no doubt the steel parts helped to pound the immortal words into listeners' brains.
Just a pre-coffee Monday-morning thought . . .
Chris
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now living in the Ocean State ....
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