Retrospective 2024-29

This is a retrospective of week 29, 2024 (2024-07-15–2024-07-21).

Ulrika, my grandchild’s mother, sent a beautiful quote this week:

Before a child speaks, it sings.
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression.
—Phylicia Rashad 

I search the web and found a research article in the British Journal of Music Education where Stefanie Stadler Elmer writes:

Infants explore their voice. At the age of 5–10 months, they usually produce repetitive syllables… As the infant vocally expresses affective states, the ones related to positive or playful feelings are more likely to sound similar to singing. …it seems that the production of melodies is generally – and probably in all languages – far easier than the production of words. The song-before-speech hypothesis holds that children…sing melodies before they produce words to talk… Hence, melodies can function as a catalyst for word production.
—Stefanie Stadler Elmer, How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak

I also found a full documentary about Baka Music & Magic and wrote a post about it. The Baka learn rhythms and melodies before they learn to talk. In fact, they start to learn before they are born. Once born, the immersion in the music continues.

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Under veckan läste jag i en artikel (DN 21/7) att

… ingen längre tänker på helheten – på att tågen ska gå. … Avreglering innebär att ingen har totalansvar.

Personer med insyn säger:

Järnvägen vittrar sönder mitt framför våra ögon. Det ligger så många systemfel bakom att man inte vet var man ska börja.
—Jörgen Lundström

Lägsta pris funkar inte, det tror jag att alla är överens om.
—Robert Röder, VD Expin Group

Administrationen äter upp pengarna som skulle ha gått till spåren.
—Håkan Englund (DN 20240721)

Det påminner mig om hur jag en gång kördes ut vinterkylan mitt i natten när järnvägsstationen skulle stängas trots att tåget var försenat. Ingen hade, som sagt, totalansvaret.

Related post:
Baka Music