5/18/2023 0 Comments Worth musitionI was chosen to play the piano during her visit to the school. The Queen visited Townsville when I was 8. I learned how to play through anything keeping those coins on my hands come what may. If one dropped, the nun would cane my leg with a feather duster. I played with twenty cent pieces on each hand. By the time I finally turned 8, my repertoire was massive. I begged my parents for piano lessons but in those days, the catholic nuns refused to teach anyone until they were 8. ![]() Wherever we went, I sniff out the closest piano and sit for hours playing whatever music was inside of me. If I was in trouble, I would sit in my bedroom walk in robe and sing loudly to calm myself down. I remember receiving a toy piano when I was 3 and I taught myself how to play all my favourite songs until it broke from overuse. Before real words formed, I created my own language and sang repetitive songs as I was learning to walk. My mother told me recently that when she brought me home from the hospital as a newborn, I would rock myself to sleep by kicking the side of the bassinet from day one. We entrain to each other through the music. ![]() Holding our pregnant bellies, we sing to our growing little person, our voices in lilting tones, our melodies in harmony with our bodies ability to create life. Music stimulates the production of endorphins.Įarly connection between mama and baby are musical in quality. At an individual level it can induce multiple responses - physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive and behavioural. Music promotes the development and maintenance of individual, group, cultural and national identities. Whether we hear it externally OR it emerges from deep within us, the soundtrack of our lives plays 24 hours a day inside our heads and within our bodies. It is shared via technology or via organically passing it on generation to generation. What is a family without music? What is a society without music? What is a life without music? What is a culture without music? Music reflects and creates social conditions - including the factors that either facilitate or impede social change. Across time zones, languages, cultural heritages and geographics, each generation in each culture carves out a tangible representation of what each decade has meant through its music. Each decade has its own texture and flavour expressed and generated through music. Music mirrors values as each spin of the cultural cycle waves its way through history. the question is, I ask, what is the true value of music? For the artist? For the consumers, the curators, the incubators, the creators and the promoters?Īnd for a world needing inspiration to rebuild? What does music mean to them now? In an age when contemporary music has never been more available through low cost or free streaming digital delivery platforms. From the day your born till the day you die, music helps to shape you. ![]() At a time in history when the global Music Industry is recovering from its worst two years ever, I ponder on the value of music and what that means for its audiences moving forward.
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