Somebody can come out to dance, and his dancing will be watching. Watching like what? As he is dancing, you will say if you watch him, maybe you too will be able to dance like him. Everyone has got the dance his heart likes, and that is why the dances are many. -Ibrahim Abdulai, quoted in John Miller Chernoff, African Rhythm and African Sensibility

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"Do you hear the rushing of the river?"

"Yes." he tells his teacher.

"That is the Way."

RESOURCES

note-the following resources are recommended for use after the program

books
THE SINGING NEANDERTHAL - STEVEN J. MITHEN

THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC - NILS L. WALLIN ed.(especially chapters: Origins of Music and Speech;New Perspectives in the Beginnings of Music; The "Musilanguage" Model of Music; Antecedents of the Temporal Arts)

THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC - H.I. KHAN

THE WORLD IS SOUND - JOACHIM BERENDT

NADA BRAHMA - JOACHIM BERENDT

THE PRESENT MOMENT - DANIEL STERN

SOUND & SYMBOL - VICTOR ZUCKERKANDL

MAN THE MUSICIAN - VICTOR ZUCKERKANDL

THE SENSE OF MUSIC - VICTOR ZUCKERKANDL

WORLD MUSIC. A GLOBAL JOURNEY - TERRY E. MILLER & ANDREW SHAHRIARI

THE SENSE OF MUSIC - VICTOR ZUCKERKANDL




papers and chapters online

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE, SYMBOLISM AND MUSIC--AN ALTERNATIVE
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE - F. d'Errico, C. Hensilwood, et. al. (Journal of World Prehistory v17.1, 2003) pdf


IS MUSIC THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE EVER DID? - Ian Cross (preprint; in: Music, mind and science) pdf


MUSIC AND MEANING, AMBIGUITY AND EVOLUTION - Ian Cross (preprint; in Musical Communications, 2004) pdf


MUSIC AND BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION - Ian Cross (in: The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, 2003) pdf


MUSIC, LANGUAGE & HUMAN EVOLUTION - Steven Mithen, et. al. (European Science Foundation 2004) pdf


THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC AND ITS LINGUISTIC SIGNIFICANCE FOR MODERN HUMANS - Steven Mithen (EVOLANG Conference, 2006) word


SYNCH, SONG AND SOCIETY - Wm. L. Benzon (review of The Singing Neanderthals; Human Nature Review, v5 2005)


HUMAN CREATIVITY: ITS COGNITIVE BASIS, ITS EVOLUTION, AND ITS CONNECTIONS WITH CHILDHOOD PRETENCE- Peter Carruthers (reprint, in: The Evolution of Creativity)


websites:

thisisyourbrainonmusic (Daniel Levitin)

the deep listening organization

destinationout blog


 

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CONTACT

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DOWNLOADS

Spike Fiddle PDF (tracklist program)

download sampler (mp3 divshare)
Listen sampler:

1 Randy Weston - Blue Moses 11:28 United States
2 Jilala De Tanger - Ouled Khalifa 8:31 Morocco
3 Alan Maralung - Green Frog 9:04 Australia
4 Namibia Bushmen - Chant 2:13 Namibia
5 Boubacar Diagne - Laye Laye 3:35 Senegal
6 Yuru Maliri - Shah Batha'i 4:53 Baluchistan

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