The Musical Human - A History of Life on Earth - Michael Spitzer
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Anthropology
Evolution
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Bloomsbury presents The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer, read by Daniel Levitin.
One hundred and sixty-five million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.
Sixty-six million years ago was the first melody.
Forty thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument.
Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story.
The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives, music in world history and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI.
Through this journey we begin to understand how music is central to the distinctly human experiences of cognition, feeling and even biology, both widening and closing the evolutionary gaps between ourselves and animals in surprising ways.
The Musical Human boldly puts the case that music is the most important thing we ever did; it is a fundamental part of what makes us human.
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
April 17th, 2022
Thank you
April 18th, 2022
Thank you so so much for this!!
April 3rd, 2023
“..that music is the most important thing we ever did; it is a fundamental part of what makes us human.”
Not the ‘most important thing we ever did’, but the coolest & most fun.
You could own the 10 best cars in the world, but they will just sit there doing nothing at all - stuck like rocks on the ground. The universe is boring without energy - nothing happens without energy. Econ 101 takes energy as a given, but it’s everything because without it you have nothing. Cooking might be the most important thing we ever did, because cooking gets humans 25% more calories from our food plus a bunch more vitamins. Instead of chewing most of the day like our chimp cousins, cooking essentially worked to speed up our digestive process which mean suddenly we had loads of free time to do other things, like um… oh I don’t know… INVENT MUSIC! Rock on Cave Bros!
Thanks for sharing Cave Bro
IMO energy first, then all else follows. Energy is everything. Do you actually believe the US and it’s vassal bitches are supporting Ukraine because of human rights-N-stuff?
I believe the info in the book below make a very robust argument. I’ve been an energy first & foremost guy well before Wrangham, but it was like a much needed puzzle piece fell into my lap, almost a decade ago.
No biggie. All the energy we have poured into trying to find our back story, yet we might not even survive the rest of this century and if any do, they won’t be worrying about any of this trivia.
What they will be thinking is something like this - “I need to obtain 2000 calories to keep my child alive”.
*Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human - Richard Wrangham*
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“…renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham makes the claim that learning to cook food was the hinge on which human evolution turned. Eating cooked food, he argues, enabled us to evolve our large brains, and cooking itself became a primary focus of human social activity—in short, cooking made us the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. Path-breaking and provocative, Catching Fire will fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins—or in our modern eating habits.”
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https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/catching-fire-how-cooking-made-us-human-richard-wrangham/
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