Center for South Asia Lecture Series

Special Guest Nicolas Magriel tells how children who grow up in oral musical contexts commonly learn the body-language of music before they learn music itself. Throughout childhood they absorb the mannerisms of performance practice and the physical and social graces befitting of musicians. Learning music is accomplished by osmosis and imitation, largely without conscious intent. Children develop an unselfconscious musical confidence born of inherited or deeply-nurtured authority.