{"id":4940,"date":"2020-06-16T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/artsoundscapes\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2021-05-12T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:10:25","slug":"inquiring-into-the-roles-of-listening-in-the-prehistory-of-song-and-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/artsoundscapes\/inquiring-into-the-roles-of-listening-in-the-prehistory-of-song-and-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernd Brabec de Mori &#8211; Inquiring into the Roles of Listening in the Prehistory of Song and Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00bb1&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb3.25&#8243; background_size=\u00bbinitial\u00bb background_position=\u00bbtop_left\u00bb background_repeat=\u00bbrepeat\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb3.25&#8243; custom_padding=\u00bb|||\u00bb custom_padding__hover=\u00bb|||\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.9.2&#8243; background_size=\u00bbinitial\u00bb background_position=\u00bbtop_left\u00bb background_repeat=\u00bbrepeat\u00bb]<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> Bernd Brabec de Mori (Afil. Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One distinctive faculty of human modernity is the ability of differentiated utterances that we call today speech or song (or more generally, language and music). It is still under debate whether language and music are the sole achievement of homo sapiens or other hominins were capable of this distinction too. Likewise it is unclear how the bifurcation of these forms of utterance happened, why it was sustainable (there is no contemporary human community without language or music), and what this would mean for our understanding of contemporary speech and song. In this talk, I argue that a specific \u201cposture of listening\u201d I call \u201cenchanted listening\u201d is a prerequisite for the cognitive ability of \u201cthinking-at-a-distance\u201d, that is, abstract reasoning, and with it the abilities of transcendental imagination (proto-religion) on the one hand, and fixed-distance rhythm and pitch utterance (proto-music) on the other. This accounts for the paramount importance of proto-musical utterance in early human modernity, addressing the sustainability question, and also for the almost universal interconnectedness of music with rituals (in its broadest sense).<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 June 2020<br \/>\n<a href= https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=om9o8IjM-R8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: #10509E!important\">Watch the recording here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:fl-builder\/layout \/-->\r\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> Bernd Brabec de Mori (Afil. Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABSTRACT: <\/strong>One distinctive faculty of human modernity is the ability of differentiated utterances that we call today speech or song (or more generally, language and music). It is still under debate whether language and music are the sole achievement of homo sapiens or other hominins were capable of this distinction too. Likewise it is unclear how the bifurcation of these forms of utterance happened, why it was sustainable (there is no contemporary human community without language or music), and what this would mean for our understanding of contemporary speech and song. In this talk, I argue that a specific \u201cposture of listening\u201d I call \u201cenchanted listening\u201d is a prerequisite for the cognitive ability of \u201cthinking-at-a-distance\u201d, that is, abstract reasoning, and with it the abilities of transcendental imagination (proto-religion) on the one hand, and fixed-distance rhythm and pitch utterance (proto-music) on the other. This accounts for the paramount importance of proto-musical utterance in early human modernity, addressing the sustainability question, and also for the almost universal interconnectedness of music with rituals (in its broadest sense).<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.0.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bernd Brabec de Mori - Inquiring into the Roles of Listening in the Prehistory of Song and Speech - Artsoundscapes %<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ARTSOUNDSCAPES is an ERC Advanced grant project led by Prof. Margarita D\u00edaz-Andreu. 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