Author and founder, Brainstorms online community
Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture, by William Benzon
"The author is a cognitive scientist who is also a jazz musician. His thesis is that making music ('musicking') is fundamentally a social phenomenon that actually creates a physical coupling between otherwise separate neurosystems. What's interesting to me is that this is such a weird and far-out theory, but it's well cited in terms of brain research. He's saying essentially that musical arts are not really a cultural luxury, but maybe a pivotal part of evolution from way back that's stuck with us."
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