The oldest song in the world
This is very cool. But calling it the &quot;oldest song&quot; is a bit of a stretch. Maybe one could call it the &quot;oldest song in history&quot;, since it is the oldest song we have found written down, but certainly not the oldest song of all time.<p>At least according to a Netflix documentary on India, there are some brahmins outside Kerala that have been chanting the same song since before the invention of speech. The claim is that the chant makes no sense in any linguistic or even musical tradition and is more closely related to birdsong, indicating a pre-oral genesis.<p>I think this particular example is a bit far-fetched, but it&#x27;s not outside the realm of possibility for an older, oral-tradition song to have survived, in some form, to the present day.