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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Music Theory and Popular Music and the Big Question
When I was in junior high school, we had a music teacher who used pop music to explain what he was talking about. As a budding physicist at the time, there's a theory of the structure for a song that totally changed the way that I thought about music. And it's all part of the history of music, the history of recording. So it's all these things I try to teach simultaneously. It's an early onset skill. Well, this is my theory. Anyways, my theory is that people develop it when they develop language and I call it native music fluency.
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