jespah lara - oral vs. literate

i don't recall who the author is, but the article on literate vs. oral societies really intrigued me.
I have this article before, and after reading it i remember being angry at having been born into a literate society. it struck a chord with me because in a specific way it relates to my life very personally.
i have always loved music, and i started playing drums when i was 16. i took lessons for a while, and then quit because i wasn't really learning anything. my approach to music has always been very unorthodox. i would love to do something with my life that involves creating music, but i was strongly against being a music major because i didn't want to learn it from someone else. i wanted to learn it from myself, because it's all right there, for anyone to grasp. music hasn't always been notated. someone came along and imposed a completely arbitrary structure onto a preexisting phenomenon. so why should i follow it?
whenever i talk with other drummers, or just musicians in general, and they use all of these technical terms regarding rhythm, or drum technique, i never know what they're talking about, because i didn't learn the jargon. if they want to understand what they want me to do in a song my usual response is "just play it". the second they play whatever it is we're working on or talking about i understand everything completely. that's because i know rhythms, beats and patterns by what they are, not by what they're called. i don't have the language filter, and i much prefer knowing music this way.
this is very similar to the differences between oral and literate cultures.
an oral prayer has so much more meaning, because it is just known from the heart for what it is, and for what it's intention is.