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Please read the abstract from the first page of the paper (Handout)
Please take a moment to think about these questions:
Walter Freeman claims that singing and dancing are 'biotechnologies" of group formation. He argues that they facilitate to overcome the so-called "solipsistic barrier". In simple terms: if people act in synchrony, they share a similar state of mind and can relate to each other more easily than, for example, by talking.
What is the bottom line when you just consider the information from the abstract?
How could music originate in "early mother-infant interactions' ?
What are the psychological and biological implications of mother-infant bonding anyway?
Qualitative investigation on singing in a group of homeless men in Canada (see first page on handout).
An empirical study suggesting that singing together might evoke a social bonding response among singers at psychological and biological levels.
Please take a moment to think about this question:
What are your personal experiences with singing?
How do you feel, when singing together with people in a group?
Are there any other questions that come to your mind when singing together with other people - or singing alone occasionally?