The Science of Clapping
I never knew that there was a specific reason for why some White people have trouble clapping on the right beat. I always thought that clapping on the right beat was something that was common sense, or an innate bodily response to listening to music. I didn’t know that there was an actual cultural aspect to it in terms of where different types of music originated. I thought that the development is a displacement beat was interesting because it in a way it sets up a signal for when the audience is supposed to clap next. In one of the videos that Professor O’Malley showed, the singer literally had to adjust the song that he was playing in order to accommodate the audience’s poor clapping. I never even thought that how improper clapping could affect the performer. It makes sense though because singers with different tones tend to be separated from each other because it can be hard for them to stay on their key, and that same rule can apply to musicians.
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