Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance
Rhythmic interaction binds individuals together into cooperative communities.
Shahram Heshmat • Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
Rhythm is the song of life. The syllabic stress patterns of speech sync up with the heartbeat we hear in the womb, the pulses of air in the lungs, the strides of walking and running. Beating a rhythm is our first music, the joyous reflex that makes us tap feet, drum fingers and clap hands. To the young man carrying a pair of battered drumsticks eve
... See moreJoe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
William James referred to our “susceptibility to music,” and while music can affect all of us—calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize and synchronize us at work or play—it
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
This bedrock layer of improvisation, almost beyond the scope of musicology, is the psychology or personality of the individual musician.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
As a teenager, I read guitar magazines not because I could play guitar or was a particularly talented musician but because I liked the technicalities they would explain. Regular music magazines talked about everything around the music; I wanted to get inside it. I haven’t played a violin in years but I still long to get inside the music, to inhabit... See more
Alicia Kennedy • On Turning 39
