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Why Do We Sing?

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19/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Why Do We Sing?

Gareth Malone explores how the ability to sing evolved over time.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone mixes science and cultural history to explore the role of singing in our development. From August 2008.

Gareth Malone explores how man developed the vocal capability to sing. He investigates how singing as we know it today began hundreds of millions of years ago and how prehistoric man used a type of vocal communication which could be called the precursor of singing. He finds out how this changed and developed as man evolved and explores what this tells us about human communication and how our relationship with song has grown out of moments in early history.

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