Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA12922 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:20:33 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:15:33 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Shakers To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3CCC3C45.96602A3A@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en,ja References: <F112jdND2nTe1CIGj0g00001262@hotmail.com> <02b801c1ee8d$6e1342c0$8e4d073e@APATRICK2KLAPTOP> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Alan,
> New England Shaking Brethren....memes didn't transfer across generations and
> genes certainly did not. Amish do, but that because they breed. Thoughts as
> to why memes cannot carry withou genes in this case?
>
Isn't that tune incorporated into Copland's "Appalachian Spring" to a
Shaker song, "'Tis a gift to be simple" ?
Bill
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