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. | A one hour documentary by NHK, Japan, presenting cross-species and cross-cultural research on musicality, filmed in Amsterdam, Inuyama, Boston and the rainforest of Central Africa. [Full video]
