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This Is Your Brain on Music

This Is Your Brain on Music

A deep dive into how music affects us

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Few things have had such a profound and wide-ranging effect as music. This collection dives into its history, reveals the profound stories of genres like jazz, rock and more—and what it and its innovations do to our brains and society. Press play!

This Is Your Brain on Music

A deep dive into how music affects us

This Is Your Brain On Music
This Is Your Brain On Music
Daniel J. Levitin
The Science of a Human Obsession
17 min4.1
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
Simon Napier-Bell
The Dodgy Business of Popular Music
20 min4.0
How Music Works
How Music Works
David Byrne
How circumstance and creativity collide in tune
20 min4.4
Musicophilia
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
23 min4.3
The Ignorant Maestro
The Ignorant Maestro
Itay Talgam
How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance
14 min4.2
Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom
Joel Beckerman (Autor), Tyler Gray
How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
11 min3.4
The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross
Listening to the Twentieth Century
37 min4.3
How Music Got Free
How Music Got Free
Stephen Witt
What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?
23 min4.7
Retromania
Retromania
Simon Reynolds
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
14 min4.2
Songs of America
Songs of America
Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw
Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
22 min4.1

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