The Singing Neanderthals - The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steve Mithen
Been sat at work mini-library for too long, skim reading the indexes wasnt enough
Even for hominids and our collective journeys, a transcendent bit of interpretation. Needs a new edition but would be intriguing to see what the more musically persuaded among you get from it. I especially enjoyed an evolutionary angle expanded so fully, how universal childhood mindsets are within our species, inspiration, bonding/incorporation/exclusion, trance states and the closest to mining what we understand by the contentious word ‘groove’
Meaty forehead Nietzsche quote about new souls surely singing/10