The other night Anna and I went to see Beats, Rhymes And Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest.
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Songwriting and genealogy
The best tool for understanding where music comes from is evolutionary biology. Songs don’t spontaneously spring into being any more than animals or plants do. They evolve, descending from reshuffled pieces of existing songs, the way our genes are shuffled together from our parents’ genes. The same way that all life has a single common …