Tambourines Phonemes

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TambourinesPhonemes Dopamine

• Music, Language, and the Brain
• Presented by Shirl TerrellProduced by Francis
  Choy

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Our Roles

• Tappers
• Snappers
• Clappers

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• THEORY
• FUN

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• I come home in the morning light
• My mother says when you gonna live your live
  right
• Oh mother dear were not the fortunate ones
• And DE, they want to have fun
• Oh DE, just want to have fun

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• The phone rings in the middle of the nightMy
  father yells what you gonna do with your lifeOh
  daddy dear you know youre still number one
• But DE they want to have fun
• Oh DE they want to have

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Thats all they really want Some fun When the
working day is done Oh DE they want to have
fun Oh DE they want to have fun
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• Some boys take a beautiful girl
• And hide her away from the rest of the world
• I want to be the one to walk in the sun
• Oh DE they want to have fun
• Oh DE they want to have

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Thats all they really want Some fun When the
working day is done DE girls they want to have
fun Oh DE Boys just want to have fun They want to
have fun They want to have fun... Lyrics Robert
Hazard Sung by Cyndi Lauper
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KOUYOU AFRICAN MEDICINE DANCE

• Horns, drums, sticks, handclapping, tambourines

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Tribal Dance
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Tactus

• Level of temporal organization regular and
  periodic
• Range coincides with moderate walking pace, human
  heartbeat, rate of jaw movement in chewing,
  infant sucking reflex

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Ravi Shankar

• Raga Jogeshwari
• for sitar and tabla

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Steven Pinker

• Evolutionary psychologist, Harvard professor,
  student of world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky
• The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates
  Language
• How the Mind Works
• The Blank Slate

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• Music is auditory cheesecake.
• Music is biologically useless.
• Compared with language, vision, social reasoning
  and physical know-how, music could vanish from
  our species and the rest of our lifestyle would
  be virtually unchanged.

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Steven Mithen

• Reading University archaeologist

The Singing Neanderthals the origin of music,
language, mind, and body
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• Musics evolution holds the key to language
• Music making is a universal human feature

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Brain100 Billion Nerve Cells10-100 Trillion
neural networks
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• No single language or music center
• Bilateralization processing in both hemispheres
  of brain

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• All babies are born citizens of the world
  can learn any language perfectly and have an
  innate capacity to learn any of worlds musics

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• Dopamine neurotransmitter linked to pleasure,
  emotions, movement, and addictions

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Emotions

• Emotion A mental state that arises spontaneously
  rather than through conscious effort often
  accompanied by physiological changes

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Basic Emotions

• Happiness
• Surprise
• Sadness
• Anger
• Fear
• Disgust

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Your Music

• What is one of your favorite pieces of music?
• What about that music appeals to you?
• What emotions does it invoke, if any?

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Music Clips

• Imagine John Lennon

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Music Clips

• My War Black Flag

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Brainstorming

• Emotions this music evokes
• Subjects you could teach using this clip
• Ways to get your students involved

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Music Clips

• Elvis

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Music Clips

• Bauhaus

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Music Clips

• Schumann

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Music Clips

• Copland

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Music Clips

• How Can I Keep from Singing
• Enya

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Habituation

• Brain is interested only in change
• Longer neurons stimulated, less they respond
• Without constant renewal of sound or attention to
  sound, we deafen to it

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Earworm - Ohrwurm

• Song stuck in the head syndrome
• Neural circuits representing the song get
  stuck in playback mode

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• The important thing is not, is it good music,
  but what is the music good for? -
  Folksinger Pete Seeger
• Richard Wagners music is better than it
  sounds.
• Mark Twain

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Group Music Making

• Molds minds and bodies in shared emotional state
• Increases ability to cooperate with others
• Releases hormone oxytocin, loosens synaptic
  connections where prior knowledge held, clears
  path for acquisition of new understanding through
  behavioral actions shared by others

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Circle

• Music as cultural expression
• Brain as it processes music and language
• Music as means of expressing emotions
• Music making in a group setting

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CELEBRATEKool and the Gangaccompanied byThe
DE Gang