ABSTRACT
The biological and the social are not separate after all. At all levels, the biological and the social interconnect. The biological and the social are not separate after all. A multicoloured image of the brain, totally excised from the rest of the child's body, detached from the child's social, material and cultural context, represents a highly reductionist, pure-science point of view. The area of the brain that processes musical sounds is presumed to be also responsible for auditory processing in language, reading skills and so on. The cerebral areas are composed of a multitude of nerve cells or neurons. Nerve cells depend on oxygen and the more active the cell, the more oxygen it needs. Attempts to explain young children as musical merely in terms of biology, as brains, genes or evolutionary survival needs, are doomed to failure because they are reductionist, tend to be determinist and erase the cultural, social and political dimensions.
