Authors:
Elizabeth Churchill
What do British neurologist Oliver Sacks and George Clinton, one of the godfathers of funk, have in common? They both believe in the fundamental importance of music to humans. Sacks believes that humans are neurologically wired for sound and tells us that music occupies more areas of our brain than language does. In other words, humans are a musical species. Movement to a beat is apparently exclusively human; despite their complex communicative abilities and rich social organization, apes and chimps are not going to set up discos anytime soon. George Clinton is associated with the force of funk and…
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