Why Do We Sing?

2025, Japan

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Why do we sing? In this documentary, we meet dementia patients who may have forgotten their own names, but their musical memory survives. And we visit the Baka, a hunter-gatherer tribe in the Cameroon whose use of song has helped them endure for 200,000 years. A cognitive scientist describes the surprising similarities between the two parties. Explore the mystery of the origins of music and its importance in our lives today.