You gotta love anyone who can site B.F. Skinner without a hint of irony or disgust. Posing the conversation as a spontaneous and perhaps (debated) inherent quality of human nature, Boyle goes on to examine the improvisational nature of such which then in turn becomes a conversation in music, between musicians with word, gesture, attitude, intent made action. Conversation is the specific location of our dialectic, the red dress with which we affix our speech communities. (see above) It is a process by which as Burke might say we come into identification with one another and leaving room for " the potential of dissent" we experience something-- communication, understanding, knowledge, play? All of the above?
Music is the tableau upon which Boyle quite aptly places the "harmonic changes" which integrate into our thoughts-made-genre-made-conversation. lovely.
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