Music as a Chariot

Chapter 6

Campfire Songs

Rhythm and Entrainment

Introduction: Welcome Homo

In the spring of 1990, the chair of our department, Jim O’Connor, gradually became more aware that my interest in theatre was not simply in the mechanisms of sound, but much more holistically, in the nature of theatre itself. For whatever reason, he nurtured this in me, and asked me to develop an introductory course in theatre for our majors. At the time, our majors took a large lecture, intro to theatre class along with non-majors, and Jim wanted to create an experience for them that was special and immersive, one that would take the impulses that had drawn them into theatre in the first place, and turn on the light bulb, so to speak. We wanted to awaken them to the magic ...