Like all of the Soul Center albums, the new one is didactic, meant to prove that minimalism need not be a dead end or a retreat from the wider world of pop music.
Lastly the reference group did not show a significant difference in performance between pre- and post-test questions covering asynchronous content (mean scores of 60.72 ± 19.84 and 65.63 ± 17.40 respectively, mean difference of 4.91% [−26.54 to 16.72]; p = 0.61) or didactic content (mean score of 53.13 ± 12.94 and 48.21 ± 15.15 respectively, mean difference of −4.91% [−12.53 to 22.35]; p = 0.53).
They were didactic texts meant to be read as cautionary tales.
They can be playful, funny, anarchic, satirical, didactic, and mean, in order to reveal ingeniously something about ourselves.
Moreover, as one of the definitions of didactic is "meant to instruct", should we infer that the aim of music "leading" is an avoidance of instruction?
Made up of Indian-style Aesop's fables, religious parables and biographies of historical figures, they taught him about the great, and lesser-known, stories of India in a didactic format meant for young audiences.
There was also not a significant difference in performance of the reference group on post-test questions covering asynchronous and didactic content with mean scores of 65.63 ±17.36 and 48.21 ± 15.15 respectively with a mean difference of 17.41% [−0.66 to 35.48]; p = 0.57.
There was a significant difference in pre-test scores for asynchronous and didactic groups with mean scores of 62% ± 15.69 and 39.75% ± 13.29 respectively with mean difference of 22.24% ± 22.06, 95% CI [15.53 to 28.95]; p = 0.
Further in depth analysis of the reference group found that there was not a significant difference in performance on pre-test questions covering asynchronous content and pre-test questions covering didactic content with mean scores of 60.72% ± 19.84 and 53.13% ± 12.94 respectively with a mean difference of 7.60% [−5.07 to 20.25]; p = 0.20.
