| Thills and speed can result in screams. I just did my own research while putting together some rock and roll music for my CD collection.
One the pioneers of fast music was Little Richard, and he got famous for his scream ( that he calls his howl) that he makes during a song, right before the intramental part and then it seems the music gets faster and more instense. That is more "beats" per moment on the piano or drums.
Soon all the rockabilly singers who play real fast music started to scream during their frantic songs. That seemed to be a turn on. As music became a kind of para-sexual experience in getting high.
Later Little Richard came out of the closet and started to dress like the girls also. Hmm?
A climax is not alway related to sex I would speculate, but with simular overtones.
Then I found this amazing song from the Rolling Stones "Circus" show. Called "a whole lotta Yoko". The Stones were playing this real fast background music and Yoko Ono just scream through the whole song. It was totally primeval ( if I spelled that right). Reminded me of the "go ape" screams mentioned. Or some Native American song with such screams in it, as mating songs or war songs. Making babies or killing people, the fever pitch is simular.
But the monkey clan do not do much killing of others, like us human primates. But they go into rages simular to fighting. With lots of screaming for that as well.
Rock and roll, going faster and faster and louder and louder, seems linked to this topic in my mind. And a scream at the right moment adds to the fever pitch.
They did another study a while back that more teen girls get laid while listening to heavy metal music then any other kind of music. Hmm?
So perhaps humans add more exciting racket to their sex then the monkey does, via music. What would happen if they played screaming rock and roll in the monkey cage?
Another project of the "science of screaming" and then they can inform us about what we already knew. At least some of us. |