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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

337 - Steve Mullins (Ethnomusicologist / Flamenco Guitarist)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

What is music, anyway? Does a Beethoven sonata elicit the same emotions if played for someone who's never heard western music? Do any other animals experience music? Is singing related to crying? To laughing? These are the sorts of questions an ethnomusicologist thinks about. I learned a lot from Steve, and suspect you will, too.

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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

0:02.3

music

0:28.2

Greetings earthlings. Thank you for joining me in another edition another episode of this little homecrafted

0:37.9

Hand hewn podcast coming out of if I had a garage I would do it in my garage

0:43.0

I don't even have a fucking garage so I'm doing it in my one room cabin in Topanga

0:49.8

Cassie's very kind when she sees me gearing up to do a podcast. She wanders out into the woods somewhere

0:56.9

So that I don't feel self conscious. It's weird. I feel self conscious of someone sitting in the room while I do this

1:03.0

Even though I know that there are tens of thousands of you out there listening to it

1:06.5

That doesn't make me nervous because I can't see you or sense you physically. I can't hear you breathing over there or whatever

1:17.1

So it's very easy to ignore, but if there's somebody sitting in the room with me it makes me kind of

1:22.2

Self conscious. Isn't that weird? I wouldn't it's like being like one of those cam women who

1:33.5

Like I'm fine masturbating for thousands of people online, but I couldn't do it if there were a dude in the room with me

1:41.7

Weird anyway

1:44.2

This episode is with a guy named Steve Mullins

1:47.5

He's a

1:50.0

musician, Flamenco guitarist, he teaches music and

1:54.0

He's an ethno musicologist so we get into some really interesting stuff here. I

2:00.6

I feel so privileged to

2:03.0

To be able to pick people's brains. This is like the best job ever and I have to thank all of you for making it possible and that

2:12.2

You know, especially those of you who support the podcast financially

2:16.1

Those of you who can and do I really appreciate that it makes it possible for me to go out on these road trips

2:22.8

Like the one kissilda and I were on when I recorded this in Boulder near Boulder a place called Hygiene

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