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Joy Division - Transmission

Music is an integral part of human life. Music is not simply a distraction or a pastime, but central to our identity and evolution as a species... music influences cognition by calling attention to powerful ways music is harnessed in advertising, films, ceremonies, and everyday human interactions. Humans create music and art in order to represent ideas that are important in life. Music plays an important and ongoing role in shaping people’s cognitive, social, and cultural understandings, which in turn, influences how people navigate their lives.

The inclusion of people with a wide variety of skills and interests during performances is important for encouraging participation. The differentiated musical tastes and abilities of the participants cultivates a unique dynamic, and some constraints, during performances. By the same token, musical interaction among novices and more skilled players provides scaffolding and ongoing musical challenges. In a participatory framework, having an ever expanding set of challenges is critical so as to avert boredom... the term andragogy to denote self directed learning, which takes place during dialogic, participatory forms of music making. When musical experiences are appropriately challenging and pleasurable, people return to the jam. As people learn new songs and engage with different people, they develop new skills... The practices that emerge when human beings are in relation with each other, supporting each other’s development as human beings on a journey toward self actualization, are by their very nature situated and local, and often very personal ways of making music.
Source: Jammin’ the Blues: Experiencing the Good Life by Ruth A. Debrot


Joy Division - Transmission
  • Written by: Ian Kevin Curtis, Bernard Sumner
  • Released on: November 1979
  • Genre: New Wave, Post Punk

"Joy Division are regarded as a keynote group from their time and place. They have been the subject of several books and have been depicted in three major feature films. Joy Division members include Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner."

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