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Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 04:57 PM CDT

That was pretty interesting. Thanks for the post.

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Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 05:50 PM CDT

Thanks for sharing. I think he is talking about a very interesting subject.

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Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 06:09 PM CDT

Yeah, Jonk, that may just be the most inspiring thing I've seen about music this year... Thanks for posting it...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how many of our ideas about music are just that: ideas about music. Conventions. Assumptions. Inventions. (Like the notion of ownership and copyright... we tend to forget that these are innovations in the world of music, and for much of history these would have seemed crazy to people...)

It's good to see through different eyes or fresh eyes from time to time....

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Monday, June 29 2009 @ 08:43 PM CDT

Yes, he gets across some really good ideas about music. I see some of those things working with students, the young ones, like five and six years old. In our effort to educate them, often we squelch the creative musician in the pursuit of the disciplined musician. Really interesting topic. Thanks for sharing it here!

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Monday, June 29 2009 @ 09:08 PM CDT

Hello MJ"s,
I am new to this site and am so grateful info like this is posted. I did watch the majority of the show and will watch it again. Thanks to whoever posted that first night and now again.

I think it's so true that the creative part in so many is squelched at a young age and then they go thru life not knowing their own gift of music.

After a few years now of not doing anything musically to speak of, this show explained why I feel the way I do now... music is in me and if I'm not doing anything with it, an important part of me is not functioning ... hence I'm missing a lot of happiness... so here's to MJ's bringing more life to my being... (thanks Guy for leading me here) and thank you all for being here!!

Deb

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Tuesday, June 30 2009 @ 08:14 AM CDT

Quote by: debmac Hello MJ"s, I am new to this site and am so grateful info like this is posted. I did watch the majority of the show and will watch it again. Thanks to whoever posted that first night and now again. I think it's so true that the creative part in so many is squelched at a young age and then they go thru life not knowing their own gift of music. After a few years now of not doing anything musically to speak of, this show explained why I feel the way I do now... music is in me and if I'm not doing anything with it, an important part of me is not functioning ... hence I'm missing a lot of happiness... so here's to MJ's bringing more life to my being... (thanks Guy for leading me here) and thank you all for being here!! Deb

well said ... welcome to MJ .... JONK ... cool post

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Tuesday, June 30 2009 @ 08:48 AM CDT

Quote by: debmac ... Thanks to whoever posted that first night and now again. ...

Thanks to Chikoppi
http://macjams.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=22;showtopic=171441

Quote by: debmac Hello MJ"s, I am new to this site and am so grateful info like this is posted. ... here's to MJ's bringing more life to my being... (thanks Guy for leading me here) and thank you all for being here!! Deb

Welcome to MacJams. I love this place.


I recommend these books:

Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks

This Is Your Brain On Music - Daniel J Levitin

The Origins of Music - Wallin, Merker, Brown

Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy - Robert Jourdain

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Tuesday, June 30 2009 @ 11:37 AM CDT

Thanks to chikoppi's initial heads-up on the night this show premiered on PBS, I managed to see it. A fascinating look at how and why music affects us the way it does.

What I found most interesting was the segment dealing with exposing remote cultures to Western music for the first time and how those listeners generally identified the emotions suggested by the melodies.

Those results seem to bolster the credibility for the theory that we are genetically predisposed to respond to music.