{"id":108452,"date":"2022-03-03T01:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/108452\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:46:48","slug":"%e9%98%85%e8%af%bbthe-musical-human-a-history-of-life-on-earth%ef%bc%8827mb%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/?p=108452","title":{"rendered":"[\u9605\u8bfb]The Musical Human A History of Life on Earth\uff0827Mb\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dd-static.jd.com\/ddimg\/jfs\/t1\/172334\/10\/27254\/27648\/6218cbedE11290f50\/c2c5dd1c5b73d131.webp\" alt=\"1645045099-74fc7f66a088d7b\" width=\"650\" \/>\uffe5The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages \u2013 from Bach to BTS and back \u2013 to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives; music in world history; and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Full of delightful nuggets\u2019 Guardian online<br \/>\u2018Entertaining, informative and philosphical \u2026 An essential read\u2019 All About History<br \/>\u2018Extraordinary range \u2026 All the world and more is here\u2019 Evening Standard<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>66 million years ago came the first melody.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music\u2019 Daniel Levitin<br \/>\u2018A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind\u2019 Ian Bostridge<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\"color:#FF8C00;\"\"\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\uffe5The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,127],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-108452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kc","category-127"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108452"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xs.1ozy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=108452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}