Posted on 05/23/2019 1:25:35 PM PDT by Mariner
here seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason.
A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences suggests that those who prefer instrumental music tend to be more intelligent.
Study author Elena Racevska, a PhD student at Oxford Brookes University, became interested in how musical preference is tied to personality traits as she learned about the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, which presumes that more intelligent individuals seek more novel experiences compared to less intelligent people.
“After reading Kanazawa’s papers, one of which was on the relationship between intelligence and musical preferences, we decided to further test his hypothesis using a different set of predictors — namely, a different type of intelligence test (i.e. a nonverbal measure), and the uses of music questionnaire,” says Racevska. “We also measured a number of variables likely to have an effect in this relationship, such as taking part in extra-curricular music education, its type and duration.”
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And I enjoy my operas without sub-titles.
Corollary... people who like rap are generally imbeciles.
Most of the music I listen to today is non-English, mostly Polish, I just really like how the language sounds.
But do they prefer YYZ or Mozart?
Of course that's to be expected from a deplorable like me who spends his free time stinking up my local WalMart.
Yo, yo, yo...like rap made me Mr Smart...
Like, who listens to the words of this masterpiece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssDXiMLX9o
I think maybe it’s a song about John Bolton.
“I would have made this instrumental, but the words got in the way.....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzJFv5X42KQ
Yippee! How about playing a couple of bars of the Lone Ranger theme, then. Or the Quaker Oats song. How about that crowd favorite from the Ronco Spaghetti commercial.
Ain’t got no culture, sheeeit! I always take dishes dishes out of the sink before I piss.
“There’s a tear in my beer
Cause I’m cryin for you, dear”
Really smart people cannot listen to the illogic of jazz.
As one of my kids noted, almost all jazz concerts are free because no one wants to pay for ear mush.
>>Or the Quaker Oats song.<<
“This is the cereal that’s shot from guns. [BOOM!]”
Me love lyrix!
Here's another Rush instrumental, with "lyrics"(?)
I may put on ‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed’, that’s a great instrumental.
And then there was Ornette Coleman:
Coleman’s playing created instantaneous controversy. Miles Davis, Red Garland and Coleman Hawkins were initially openly hostile to Coleman. Dizzie Gillespie said ‘I don’t know what he’s playing but it’s not jazz’. Davis’ comments, ‘the man is all screwed up inside’, were the ones that the press picked up on but drummer Max Roach took his outrage far enough to follow Coleman backstage one night and punch him in the mouth.
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