If you are looking for The La-La Theory distro, which carries poetry and fiction zines, it is now called One-Room Schoolhouse. Here is its WEBSITE .I'm Katie. I make zines. These include the original The La-La Theory, an unusual and slightly loony zine about language; Word Math, a collection of found poetry; Transcribing Birdsong, a collection of poetry I found in my brain; and other things. You can find my zines at a bunch of distros and little shops around the country, or you can order them from my etsy shop. Why don't you do that, in fact? I like to keep the zine factory humming.
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I've seen it explained and attributed differently in different sources, but here's what I know about the la-la theory:During the nineteenth century, scientists and philosophers were interested in figuring out the origins of language. Some of their theories were pretty fanciful. The pooh-pooh theory, for instance, suggested that human speech came from the instinctive sounds early people made out of frustration and anger. The la-la theory put forth that language was borne of the human need to express music, poetry and love. Both Darwin and a Danish linguist named Otto Jespersen thought that emotion inspired music, which they believed could have been the predecessor to language. Jespersen wrote, "[Love] inspired many of the first songs, and through them was instrumental in bringing about human language."Nice, right? This layout is from iloveyourspace.com
