The power of music presents in the capacity to reach into another's experience and manifast itself in a manner that linguistic communication fails to fully describe.
"What music does is reach down into parts of our brain, it opens networks and pathways that you can't get to via language," said University of Wisconsin-Madison scholar Craig Werner, who is studying the music of the Vietnam War (with Doug Bradley) and its prominance in veterans' memories and experience.
The McGill University scientist Robert Zatorre, Washington Post writer Shankar Vedantam notes (in the piece linked above), concludes that music activates evolutionally ancient parts of the brain.
Music breaks through human separation, inspiring such activity as love, peace, and a powerful feeling to create and share. You know, the bad things Republicans hate and guard us against.
This weekend's music:
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Mind Games
- In My Life
- Black Books
- Ohio
- Bring the Boys back Home
- Comfortably Numb
- Wish You Were Here
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