Under coronakrisen is sung there endlessly in Denmark. Song compensates for a hug, explains sangbogsformand.
Højskolesangbogen is for the first time at the Arnold Buscks bestseller list.
It happens, after that the danes in recent weeks has sung a sing in a degree that is rarely seen. This applies to both outside on the balcony with the neighbors and in the morning, with Phillip Faber on DR1.
It tells the executive director at Arnold Busck Helle Busck Fensvig to Kristeligt Dagblad.
– In last week was not on the list, so I guess that it is linked with the increasing interest for community singing, we have been able to see in the last weeks, says Helle Busck Fensvig to the newspaper.
She believes that it is individuals, as a buyer Højskolesangbogen, since schools and other institutions normally, to buy the book is closed.
Højskolesangbogsudvalgets president, Jørgen Carlsen, suggests that højskolesangene can provide the sense of cohesion, which many may miss just now.
– It is a cultural monument, which contains the history, the language, the description of the landscape and region. Most have a relation to it, sung about, and it is liberating to be allowed to sing about something you have interest or love for, along with others, he says to Kristeligt Dagblad.
Jørgen Carlsen believes that there may be a scientific explanation of why community singing can be welcome in a time of social isolation.
– At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, they have made studies of the choristers, where they found out that, after they had sung, they had more oxytocin in the blood.
– this is The hormone we call krammehormonet. So, in a situation where you can’t cuddle, it is a way to compensate on, ” says Jørgen Carlsen.
He points out, however, that the great interest for music is not created solely because of coronavirusset. It is according to him a growing interest, which has been there a long time.
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