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POPSDid Bob Dylan Invent Rap and Music Videos? I don't think so, but it's a funny thought. {{ericw}} and I are both huge fans of Dylan -- Bringing It All Back Home was one of the most influential albums in my life (I was 16 when I first heard it).
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POPSDid Music Prepare the Way for Speech? interesting article on Music & Speech. From the new and promising blog: "Babel's Dawn": See here for the first post & introduction to the blog: This post begins the creation of a blog that aims to become the main source of news and information about the evolution of speech, from primate vocalizations to meaningful exchanges.
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POPSThe survival value of music And Pinker isn't the only skeptic. Boston Pops maestro Keith Lockhart conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra while he, a few musicians, and a portion of the audience were wired with monitors that tracked their heart rate, muscle tension, respiration, and other bodily signals of emotion. Yet though Lockhart was happy to make himself Levitin's guinea pig, he confesses to be ultimately uninterested in the origins of music. "It's enough for me to know that music does have a distinct emotional reaction in almost everybody that no other art form can boast of," he says. "I've never particularly wanted to know why that happens."
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POPSRock music was invented in 1785! I had no idea it went back that far! The Richardson Rock Band explodes onto the London scene with a rough-hewn set of waltzes and quadrilles Awesome.
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POPSiTunes signature maker Cool tool that analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature for you. via www.metafilter.com
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