Science question: Why do we have music and dance?

benj b · Post by **benj b** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:01 pm

"anyone know any physiological/social/evolutionary benefits to music and dance? How did it get invented? Any why does it feel so nice?"

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inspector · Post by **inspector** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:04 pm

www.google.com

ozols man · Post by **ozols man** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:05 pm

dance puts you in a trance like state, this makes you forget about the bad things in your life...

let the good times roll

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:15 pm

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:gG ... unit13.pdf

benj b · Post by **benj b** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:25 pm

FullyRecordingz wrote:http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:gG ... unit13.pdf

nice whan, sincerely thanks.

oh and "google it" - yes, very clever.

nospin · Post by **nospin** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:26 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music

inspector · Post by **inspector** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:42 pm

benj b wrote: oh and "google it" - yes, very clever.

Thanks.

delendi · Post by **delendi** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:47 pm

great bit about this in the intro to 'last night a dj saved my life'. the book, not the song.

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:47 pm

Music is how we remember.

Music & Dance are the cornerstones of civilisation,
they provide the framework in which society exists.

Without dance we've lost each other.

Without music we've lost everything.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:54 pm

Not really.

I mean it would be a bit crap without music and dance but they aren't the cornerstones of civilization.

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:59 pm

yeah.

they really are.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:05 pm

Funny who our civilization existed for yonks with common people only having music and dance be a really small part of their existences at special occasions or whatever then eh?

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:15 pm

jim wrote:Funny who our civilization existed for yonks with common people only having music and dance be a really small part of their existences at special occasions or whatever then eh?

Seems a very selective reading of history yeah.

music was & is a daily part of the lives of 'common people' & will continue to be.

during a brief period of North-Western european history the church attempted to impose a situation like the one you describe.

Like I said.

Music is how we remember.

dublinstep · Post by **dublinstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:47 pm

doomstep wrote: Music & Dance are the cornerstones of civilisation,
they provide the framework in which society exists.

Nope. Fucking is. That is the cornerstone of civilisation, because without it, we'd lose everything (i.e. there wouldnt be anyone around).

parson · Post by **parson** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:52 pm

doomstep wrote:Music is how we remember.

Music & Dance are the cornerstones of civilisation,
they provide the framework in which society exists.

Without dance we've lost each other.

Without music we've lost everything.

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:24 pm

dublinstep wrote:
doomstep wrote: Music & Dance are the cornerstones of civilisation,
they provide the framework in which society exists.
Nope. Fucking is. That is the cornerstone of civilisation, because without it, we'd lose everything (i.e. there wouldnt be anyone around).

Nope. Senseless reproduction has as much potential to destroy a species as it does to perpetuate it.

Also, when backed into a corner a species can begin to 'reproduce' without fucking, as a female hammerhead shark recentlly proved, the only caveat bein that its a somewhat short term solution & would def be a genetic dead end street.

parson · Post by **parson** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:37 pm

the inherent implication of the term cornerstone is that there are lots of them

this is a dumb argument

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:47 pm

perhaps I shudda sed bedrock

Im not one to let an argument pass by just cos its dumb.

numaestro · Post by **numaestro** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:19 am

Music is more important than we think it is... it was the basis of language (or so I've been led to believe).

And without music adverts would be even more boring.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:37 am

They're something to do while we wait to die

Science question: Why do we have music and dance?

Science question: Why do we have music and dance?

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