| 1 | !!Improvised rap shows the plausibility of alternative universe examples. |
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| 3 | Early [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_rap freestyle rap]] was written down, but since 1990, it has focused on improvisation, or "coming off the top of the head". This mirrors "flyting", the Scottish tradition of rap battles described in a ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-forms-modern-depravity-way-older-than-your-grandpa/ article]]. If people in RealLife can learn to improvise verse, it wouldn't be impossible for a culture to value the ability to improvise verse. Musicals and [[GratuitousIambicPentameter blank verse plays]] take place in such a culture. As for the tunes, a lot of Creator/EmilyDickinson poems can be set to the same songs because they're all written in "ballad meter", or iambic heptameter. Perhaps there are a few tunes that everyone knows and can employ in an improvised Filk Song. |
| 4 | * That last point is unneeded-it's plausible that, without much of a change in the brain, the human race could have good improvisational composing skills as well. |
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| 6 | !!The skills needed in such a culture are similar to those used in church meetings. |
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| 8 | Consider the singing of contemporary hymns in Christian churches that put lyrics on a projector instead of placing song books behind seats (as churches using traditional hymns do) or giving people song books to take home (as Jehovah's Witnesses do). |
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