![]() ![]() That is, at least, the thesis of Daniel J. ![]() ![]() But you’d be even more right if you said that each moment was a link in a longer anthropological chain that unites us all (no matter how vanilla our tastes may be) - one that, if traced to its origins, could explain why humans evolved the way we did, and why we needed music to turn out this way. You could make the case that these are all crucial steps in the development of a decidedly Caucasian musical sensibility, and you’d be right. instructions not to play any sexually explicit hip-hop jams that might perplex guests of a certain age. What do the following scenes have in common? A pubescent boy becomes the star ofhis sleep-away camp by introducing his bunkmates to Poison’s heavy-metal hit “Talk Dirty to Me” a young man learns to fear Janis Ian’s “At Seventeen” because it is the one song his mother always plays when his father doesn’t come home at night a prospective groom and bride give their D.J. ![]()
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