Open AccessCan We Learn to Hear Multi-metrically?
Author(s) -
Chris Stover
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
engaging students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-2871
DOI - 10.18061/es.v8i0.7737
Subject(s) - singing , diaspora , visual arts , metric (unit) , communication , history , psychology , art , sociology , acoustics , engineering , gender studies , physics , operations management
While certain strands of music-cogition studies suggest that we can only entrain to one metric stratum at a time, I contend that not only can we entrain to two or simultaneously, but that certain musicking practices (particularly from African and the African diaspora) require that one do so. This essay explores some scaffolded introductory activities for learning to do so through stepping, clapping, and singing.