The Weird Challenges of Orality and Literacy

When you spend time with musicians, like the thing that they're always after is the feeling. And so it's not surprising that it's part of oral culture in that sense. But it is also dramatically affected by social media because people are going for shorter and shorter. For people who are into this topic, two books I'd recommend: Orality and literacy; W. E. R. D., Weird - an acronym for Western educated industrialized rich and democratic.