The music of the voyager interstellar record

Nelson, Stephanie; Polansky, Larry

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“…Music, laughter, chanting, group pledges of allegiance, dancing, singing of nursery songs, and other choric communication activities are important because they create structures for surrender in organizational settings that can enculture us, bond us, heal us, revitalize us, and engender empathy between us. Unison musical and rhythmic communication modes ground us in our social bonds, and, as John Blacking remarked, "[...] can bridge the gulf between the true state of human being and the predicament of particular human beings in a given society, and especially the alienation that springs from the class struggle and human exploitation" (in Gourlay, 1982, 414; see also Nelson and Polansky, 1993). This harks back to Bakhtin's maxim that music is essentially ethical-it exposes the longings for the way things could be-the way we could begin to treat each other if we finally agree that we all belong together.…”

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“…Eisenberg"s article won [then] SCA's award for best organizational research in 1990. The Journal of Applied Communication Research published our article on the Music of the Voyager record (Nelson and Polansky, 1993), but the article was rejected as an SCA paper because it was deemed a topic not central to the discipline (this for a conference whose theme was "communication across cultures!") A look at any recent ICA or NCA convention program will underscore how little research on music as communication is going on within the field.…”

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Choric communication: The case of a Togolese women's musical organization

Nelson

2000

Text and Performance Quarterly

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Choric communication: The case of a Togolese women's musical organization

Nelson

2000

Text and Performance Quarterly

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“…Preparation of the Golden Record was preceded by more careful and wider consultation compared to the previous messages. A committee of scientists and technicians chaired (again) by Carl Sagan spent almost one year to select appropriate content (Sagan 1978). The Record is an impressive collection of images, sounds, music, spoken greetings and printed messages by then U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.…”

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Speaking Out to Outer Space – An Analysis of the Humanity's Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, 1962–2018

Zapp

2023

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Various messages have been sent out to potentially existing intelligent extraterrestrial life since the 1960s. Considering the significance of such messages as a medium of first contact and representation of humankind, it is surprising that they have received no attention from sociology. What is their purpose? Who speaks for earth? What is their content and has it changed over time? This work seeks to answer these questions by analyzing all relevant messages (N = 14) sent to outer space as well as related press coverage and official statements from the period 1962–2018. Analyses find a striking shift in purpose, authorship, and content, from political and scientific elites celebrating nation, science and (high) culture to, more recently, for-profits and science facilitating commercial exploitation but also individual agency and planetary awareness. However, such plurality makes global consensus and oversight on whether and what kind of messages should be sent even more difficult.

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“…In 1977, Carl Sagan and a team of researchers collected 27 songs to represent the human experience for a trip on the Voyager Probe. Among the 27 songs was Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (23). According to Sagan, "Johnson's song concerns a situation he faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep.…”

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“…According to Sagan, "Johnson's song concerns a situation he faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep. Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight" (23). The author of the scenario was unaware of Willie Johnson, the celebrated American gospel blues singer and guitarist, but, without knowing it, he selected a name that he felt represented the patient.…”

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Whether we know it or not, our educational perceptions and decisions are shaped by “race”

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DiCarlo

2017

Advances in Physiology Education

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RACE IS A SENSITIVE SUBJECT to most people. Most people think that, because they do not intentionally judge people on their race, they never do. However, everyone has been socialized, in one way or another, to judge people based on race. Often, we do not realize how implicitly held attitudes about race shape the decisions we make. Accordingly, it is of great value to discuss how implicit biases about group membership undermines our judgment. Once we start to discuss these issues, we can begin to see why racial stigmas exist and what we can do as individuals and together as a society to break through this problem.Perception involves the identification and interpretation of sensory information. However, processing sensory input is influenced by our expectations, knowledge, experience, and subjectivity. This processing happens outside of conscious awareness. As an example, please look at Fig. 1, do you see a young or an old woman (36)? What you see depends on your perspective, on the way your motivations, desires, and fears shape the way you interpret the information, and clues presented in the picture (3,4,15,19,38). Some of the information or clues are familiar and support your motivations so you shape them into a context you want to see. Other information or clues are unfamiliar and fail to satisfy your motivations or desires, so you choose to ignore them (22). In this context, perspective and motivation are everything, especially when it comes to interpreting situations. This example also illustrates that our interpretation may be different from the interpretation of others, although all interpretations may be equally valid.This may be analogous to the way we respond to a referee's call against our team. In this situation, we are highly motivated to point out why the referee is wrong. We are prone to attack the referee and defend our team. However, a referee's call against our opponent is enthusiastically endorsed. The response is rooted in emotions like tribalism and defensiveness (12). Tribalism can override reason and morality. If you doubt that tribalism can override reason and morality, consider the denial of basic scientific truths such as evolution or climate change when they challenge tribal beliefs. Or consider the long record of Catholic Church authorities denying evidence of child abuse by a small number of priests (24, 30). It is not just sports, science, politics, or religion; we identify ourselves as

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The music of the voyager interstellar record

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Choric communication: The case of a Togolese women's musical organization

Choric communication: The case of a Togolese women's musical organization

Speaking Out to Outer Space – An Analysis of the Humanity's Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, 1962–2018

Whether we know it or not, our educational perceptions and decisions are shaped by “race”

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