Readers, please join me welcoming Clare Austin, author of Butterfly who will be guest blogging here today! Aug 31… August has flitted past on Butterfly’s wings. My novel has been available for about six weeks now and all I can hope is the results of my promotional efforts are getting my book in the hands of readers. So far the response to this first story in my Fadá½¹ Trilogy has been enthusiastic. Butterfly has several themes. Music is paramount of course because it is about a family of musicians. It got me thinking again on the question “why music?” I’m not a cultural anthropologist, but I suspect that throughout the history of humankind, it would be difficult to find a cultural group who had no music. It is likely as basic as an unborn child responding to the pulsing of her mother’s heart. Why do we react at a deep emotional level to one musical genre and not another? I can listen to Chinese music, but I have to admit, it doesn’t call to my soul like an Irish lament or
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