US Black History is a history of class struggles

Written History is a history of class struggles. US Black History is the written history of an especially oppressed and exploited section of the US laboring class's struggle for liberation from Slaveowning and then Monopoly Capitalist Bourgeoisie within the whole class struggle that is US written history.

Neuroscience of singing ; music and dance as original language before talking

CB : my thesis is that the first language  , 100,000's of years before talking, was music and dance .

"The neuroscience of singing shows that when we sing our neurotransmitters connect in new and different ways. It fires up the right temporal lobe of our brain, releasing endorphins that make us smarter, healthier, happier and more creative. When we sing with other people this effect is amplified.
"The science is in. Singing is really, really good for you and the most recent research suggests that group singing is the most exhilarating and transformative of all.

The good feelings we get from singing in a group are a kind of evolutionary reward for coming together cooperatively.

The research suggests that creating music together evolved as a tool of social living. Groups and tribes sang and danced together to build loyalty, transmit vital information and ward off enemies."

Science Supports Singing

What has not been understood until recently is that singing in groups triggers the communal release of serotonin and oxytocin, the bonding hormone, and even synchronises our heart beats.

Group singing literally incentivised community over an “each cave dweller for themselves” approach. Those who sang together were strongly bonded and survived.

In her book Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others, Stacy Horn calls singing:

An infusion of the perfect tranquiliser – the kind that both soothes your nerves and elevates your spirit.

Singing Makes You Happy

For a decade, science has been hard at work trying to explain why singing has such a calming yet energising effect on people. Numerous studies demonstrate that singing releases endorphins and oxytocin – which in turn relieve anxiety and stress and which are linked to feelings of trust and bonding.

Singing helps people with depression and reduces feelings of loneliness, leaving people feeling relaxed, happy and connected. What’s more, the benefits of singing regularly are cumulative. People who sing have reduced levels of cortisol, indicating lower stress.

UK singer, singing teacher and choir leader Sophia Efthimiou describes singing as a process of consciously controlling our breath and larynx to create and sustain certain pitches and we blend that with rhythm and poetry to create songs.

In a group setting, each group member feels the musical vibrations moving through their body simultaneously. Our heart beats become synchronised. Sophia explains:

We literally form one unified heart beat.

Anybody Can Sing

One of the great things about singing is that you can receive the wellbeing benefits even if you aren’t any good. One study showed that:

Group singing can produce satisfying and therapeutic sensations even when the sound produced by the vocal instrument is of mediocre quality.

Tania de Jong, singer and founder of Creativity Australia, has effectively harnessed this ability of group singing to lift every member of the group up, no matter their singing ability.

The organisation’s project With One Voice puts a diversity of people together regularly to sing. The group euphoria is harnessed allowing people’s natural creativity, triggered by the group singing session, to generate new levels of community support, connection and opportunities. Tania says:

One of the great things about singing is that is connects you to the right side of your brain. This is the side responsible for intuition, imagination and all our creative functions. It connects us to a world of possibilities. In modern life we are constantly bombarded with so much information that we process and analyse. We tend to get stuck in the left, processing side of our brain. So it becomes fundamentally important to nurture the attributes of human beings that set us apart from machines. The best way to do that is singing.

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Sex is 100% biologically or naturally determined , not soclally constructed at all

Sex is 100% biologically or naturally determined; not socially constructed at all. Gender is BOTH biologically and socially constructed.  The Foucaultians have the position that sex and gender are 100% socially constructed ; sort of two -thirds false ! Outrageous that it is the theory accepted by many . I'm discovering that most internet left intellectuals are not clear that sex is only two , impossible to transfer from one to the other . So, the post-mods run ragged over the whole thing with most people standing there silent unable to critique them. It's astonishing mass ignorance of biology among the left "intelligentsia ". 

Gender , basically an anthropological term because one must look at all the cultures of the world and history to define it, is the cultural form in which a culture "houses " sex.  SO, AT BASE IT IS ON ANALOGY , A SEMIOTIC STRUCTURAL ANALOGY, TO THE BINARY OF SEX . Then culture ( not nature and biology) goes on to define third genders; but there are still basically men and women based on analogy to sex. AND THE GENDER BINARY BASE SHOULD NOT BE ABOLISHED , AS SEEMS TO BE THE GOAL OF LGBT IDEOLOGISTS. That is a fundamentally reactionary , anti-materialist goal. We must abolish male supremacy, not gender. We must continue to respect human NATURE even as we transcend it in many ways through culture.  Human nature includes the sexual binary of reproduction. It's indelible for the species . Culture cannot and should not try to wipe out  the reflection of natural sex in gender . The whole 2.5 million years ( Homo Habilis ) of the Stone Age had gender and gender equality. Male supremacy is not in our nature , but the sex BINARY is. 

Viva la difference !

And there _is_ human NATURE. A main principle of the postmods and intellectuals who have various disguised idealist philosophical beliefs , especially literary criticism theory , is that there is no human nature (!) ; we are 100% socially constructed . Sort of there's no such thing as biological anthropology or medicine for that matter . According to postmods and lit critters and romantics, we've transcended the natural world , and can be and do whatever we think. Basically , it's super naturalism like religion . It is a form of creationism without God.  They think a so-called trans-sexual can change sexes just because they THINK it.  That's solipsism .  Intelligent design by an individual by herself.  A humans sex is determined by her thoughts not her objective bodily characteristics.

Dylan : hence why the advocates of "blurring the line" are regularly inconsistent in their points.    Example, if gender isn't derived in part from biological sex then why does your transition (assuming one doesn't have a form of body dysmorphia) include the need to want to have emulated organs of the other sex?  Lol.

We won't see even the secular power houses of the east allow this shit to go beyond basic rights for transgender individuals because as a movement with a fairly nonsensible ideology it's but potentially destabalizing to productive forces.

Jason : 


"There is a vital difference between our charitable concern and compassion for the exceptional individual who suffers from dysphoria, and the revolution of making that person’s confusion a reason to overthrow the universe in order that dysphoria itself cannot endure as a sensible category. While individuals suffering from transgender confusion desire a different body, the gender ideologues exploiting the condition of those individuals desire a different cosmos. The dysphoric person, then, should be treated quite differently than her handlers. Transgenderism is not a matter for policy compromise or compatible addition to our sex discrimination laws. It is a form of total negation.
"The primary goal of the movement seems to be erasing sexual dimorphism from legal view and increasing the sales of medical technologies.  I'm sorry if I can't get on board with what is considered a "civil rights" movement when it pushes very questionable therapies and technologies to children as liberation hinging on this completely novel and unfalsifiable theory of "gender identity.  

If you think there is an error in sex segegation than lobby against it outright.  But males in dresses refusing to leave women's change rooms are not the new Rosa Parks."

I substantially agree with what you say. Homosexuality is a shift of gender norms. So is cross dressing. 
Homosexual man-boy relationships were a privilege of the ruling class slaveowners in Ancient Greece. It was considered a n aristocratic virtue . That legacy persists in modern Western civilization . 

British sailors conquering the world had a homosexual 
tradition because there were no women on board for many months.

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