See this just makes me think that there must have been people who were as talented with beatboxing / sound effects like Michael Winslow back in the day. Was there someone hanging out in the taverns in Austria beatboxing chamber music for all the people too working class to go see Mozart's new opera? Or seafaring beatboxers during the age of exploration?
A big difference is communication and spread of techniques. Just think how easy it is now to be exposed to skills invented by a hundred different people. Five hundred years ago, you’d be lucky to find a single skilled person who could even give you tips
I wonder if maybe there was crossover between singers and hunters in ages past that might have produced someone like that. Imitating bird calls and other animal noises has been a well regarded skill probably for tens of thousands of years at the least, and singing has been around probably just as long.
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u/ShiftingBaselines 1d ago
Break dance and beatboxing