I just had a conversation with a friend that touched on cultural appropriation in the context of world percussion and drum and dance circles. It can be a sticky subject but I’m glad that folks have developed some sensitivity to it because it goes hand in hand...
I recently came across a discussion on social media about how people feel about facilitated drum circles and I saw that there were some differing experiences about what a facilitated circle is and what it even means to facilitate a circle. For sure, the term has been...
I grew up in a multi racial home. Half of my family was African American with post-slavery roots in the American South and half was white people from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Music, rhythm, and dancing were part of every day childhood. A physical...
Neuroscience reveals how rhythm helps us walk, talk — and even loveRhythm is of course a fundamental part of music. But neuroscience is revealing that it’s also a fundamental part of our innermost selves: how we learn to walk, talk, read and even bond with others....
When you’re going abroad it’s useful to know some basic sentences in the common language of the region. Hello. How are you? I’m well, thank you. May I have some water? Can you direct me to a restroom? Where is the hospital? But when we make a...
