9 Sep
2010
9 Sep
'10
1:40 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:24:01PM +0100, Gwenhwyfaer wrote:
On 08/09/2010, Rustom Mody
<rustompmody(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, after I posted that, I realized I forgot to mention that understanding that humans
are just apes with very dextrous hands is ESSENTIAL to being an effective musician. We are
shamans. It's all about affecting people's emotions, which are mammalian and
simian in origin.
I also often say to bandmates that our function in society is to preside, along with
bartenders, over the Great American Mating Ritual. Alcohol + music + dancing = sex. We
succeed to the degree that we help people get laid.
A book I'm reading now and find fascinating is "Sex at Dawn", about the
origins of human sexuality and how agricultural and industrial civilization gets it so
wrong. The authors don't mention this, but music and dance have long been an essential
part of all kinds of social rituals-- not just the mating one.
-ken
Cannot help noticing the irony that this comment
is on this mailing list [?]
What's ironic about it?
I believe that Darwin had great difficulty
dealing with music in
evolutionary terms:
Not the original but what google produces: darwinism cant explain music
O RLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology