Hint: The mysterious rectangle depicted was a "didgeridoo"...
Read more at How Art Made the World: Once Upon a Time - Storytelling, Aboriginal Style and How Art Made the World: Once Upon a Time - Interview with David Attenborough
And, FYI, there are related videos "Time Enough for Art" and "Not Meant for the Wider World"
UPDATED 9/21: What do you think of that thesis considering today's news from Seed Magazine that Mirror Neurons Also Respond to Language and Sound, not to mention that apparently "Music makes you smarter if you get an early start" and music may have evolved through Darwinian sexual selection (via Metafilter).
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I found the article about music enhancing memory and brain development to be very interesting. Although it obviously wasn’t as supported as it is now, my dad had heard of this when I was younger, and therefore I took piano lessons for 8 years when I was in elementary school and junior high. Whether or not it really improved my memory or math skills is impossible to test, but math is one of my stronger subjects. It’s interesting that this study took place because it seems as though when schools are low on funding the first programs that are always cut are music and art. I wonder since this study is now supported by brain scans and other materials of that sort if schools will take it into consideration when making budget cuts and maybe make them elsewhere.
The article on enhancing brain activity through music was rather intriguing to me. I’ve always enjoyed music since I was a little kid. My mom’s side of the family is very music oriented and they saw fit to teach me as well. I’m not sure if that helped me with school but it did give me something to look forward to at school between band, chorus and ballet. I thought that afothergill’s comment on school budgets rather amusing. It is true that theater, music, and art are usually the first to be cut when there isn’t enough money in the budgets but I’m not sure a few supported studies would be enough to get most public schools to change their curriculum.
i know that this is a little off of the topic, but if the arts are not cut back, then what do you cut back? Do you target the Physical Education Department, the Math Department, the Science Department, or maybe the History department. The United States is a logic based society, and so such the arts are placed at the bottom of the to do list. This may be the reason why America is falling behind in world education, but that is neither here nor there, the important thing is what is happening. Western Civilization has always had a logical, Scientific theoryesc view on the world. In Eastern world Science is very wholistic. The Eastern world is more interested in how an animal lives in its environment, where as Western scientists want to know how each organ supports the body. The same could be said about the writing, Chinese characters represent ideas, or beings, the word for house is a box divided in four squares... in english, we have combined five items (each of a different meaning) to form the same thing, but that word can also be broken back into letters to form another idea. Chinese writing also supports the idea of pictures (art) to transmit an idea, where as english uses a compilation of letters to form a word, which then transmits a meaning, even if there is no corelation. And so to rap up this uberly long comment... this is why the performing arts department is always the first to be cut...
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