The Musical Human — From Participation to Consumption
If music is fundamental to humanity, why has most of its history vanished—and why have so many people become listeners rather than music-makers?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer as our lens, this investigation follows music across the human lifespan, world history, and biological evolution. Spitzer presents music as a deeply human capacity grounded in emotion, movement, cognition, culture, and social connection.
Viewed structurally, the history of music is also a history of preservation. Oral practice…
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