the natural affinity between music and movement
this article appeared in today’s new york times. it’s about the natural union of music and dance, and begins like this:
The fall concert season has begun at music halls around the world, and audiences are again sitting in rapt attention with their hands folded quietly in their laps. Does anyone besides me find this odd?
Through tens of thousands of years of evolutionary history, music has nearly always occurred together with dance. Even today, most of the world’s languages use a single word to mean both music and dance. The indivisibility of movement and sound, the anthropologist John Blacking has noted, characterizes music across cultures and across times.
i know that personally, i can barely enjoy a concert–of any type–if i can’t dance. honestly. it’s just boring otherwise. nice to see that i’m not, at heart, unusual in this way.
he also says this:
Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the “feel good” neurotransmitter.
yes! yes! yes!
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