Is music innate? Are humans the only species equipped to make it?
Look no further than Youtube for some pretty convincing anecdotal evidence. So eight million people discovered this tiny celebrity before I did. My grin is just as wide.
Watch her gears lock into beats she hears in her head; the toddler's grasp of Hey Jude gives credence to the humans-wired-for-music scenario.
Then there's the research. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, says certain brain regions are wired specifically to process music.
One would have to look for aspects of music which have no equivalent in speech. This certainly seems to be true of the regular beat or pulse. Speech has its own rhythm, but it doesn't have the fixed metrical quality of music. There's spontaneous synchronization with rhythm in all human beings, even in childhood. You tap with it, nod with it, and even if you don't, the motor parts of your brain move with it. There's an auditory/motor correlation in human beings not found in any other animal.
Oliver Sacks, Wired
And finally, check out life - the live version. When 70,000 humans gathered on Wade Oval to enjoy the 20th year of Parade the Circle, stilt walkers, giant puppets, painted dancers, musicians and spectators strutted their stuff in celebration of sight, sound and rhythmic exuberance. I captured some video of the day.
Hey Jude, it doesn’t get better than this.
Photo Susan Weber, Parade the Circle '09
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