The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

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by Levitin, Daniel J.

and advertising jingles

  and coordination songs

  and educational songs

  and evolution

  and knowledge songs

  and love songs

  and memory songs

  and origin of song

  and ritual

  and social groups

  chimpanzees

  Chomsky, Noam

  chords

  Churchland, Patricia

  Churchland, Paul

  “Chuupon Gye Chuupon Gye”

  cingulate gyrus

  Clapton, Eric

  Clark, Guy

  classical music

  clichés

  Cline, Patsy

  Clooney, Rosemary

  “Close to You”

  cochlea

  Cockburn, Bruce

  “Cold Turkey”

  Cole, Nat “King”

  collective action. See also cooperation and coordination

  collective consciousness

  Coltrane, John

  comfort songs

  communication . See also language

  computation

  Conard, Nicholas conditioning

  Confucius

  consciousness

  altererdaltered states of

  and evolution

  self-consciousness

  theories of

  consonant sounds

  conveyance

  Cook, Perry

  Coolio

  cooperation and coordination

  Costello, Elvis

  counting songs

  country music

  “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”

  “Crazy”

  Croce, Jim. See also “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”

  Cronkite, Walter

  Crosby, Bing

  Crosby, David

  Crosby, Stills & Nash

  Cross, Ian

  Crowell, Rodney

  “Cruella de Vil”

  Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

  the Cuff Links

  the Cult

  “Cupid’s Got a Brand New Gun”

  the Cure

  dance

  and accent structure

  and brain chemistry

  and brain development

  and evolution

  and group cohesion

  and joy songs

  and knowledge songs

  mating dances

  and memory

  and musical hallucination

  and Native Americans

  and prehistoric man

  rain dances

  relationship to music

  and religion

  and ritual

  “Dandelion”

  “Daniel”

  “Danny Boy”

  Danoff, Bill

  Dante, Ron

  Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)

  Darwin, Charles . See also evolution and natural selection

  Dass, Ram

  Dave Matthews Band

  David, Hal

  David, King of Israel

  Davis, Jimmie

  Dawkins, Richard

  Dawn

  Deacon, Terrence

  Dead Sea Scrolls

  “Dear John”

  “Dear Madam Barnum”

  “Death Is Not the End”

  “De Camptown Races”

  deception

  “Deck the Halls”

  “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”

  Dees, Rick

  De Grassi, Alex

  Dennett, Daniel

  Denver, John

  Derek and the Dominos

  The Descent of Man (Darwin)

  Devo

  Devr ritual

  the Dictators

  DiFranco, Ani

  “Dirt Bike”

  “Dirty Water”

  “Disco Duck”

  “Dizzy”

  DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

  “Don’t Stop”

  dopamine

  “Downbound Train”

  “Down By the Riverside”

  Down syndrome

  “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”

  The Dream of the Blue Turtles (Sting)

  “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes”

  drug use

  drums . See also rhythm

  Dumuzi

  Dunbar, Robin

  Durkheim, Émile

  Dylan, Bob

  The Eagles

  Earle, Steve

  Earth Mother

  education . See also knowledge songs

  Edwin Hawkins Singers

  Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe

  “El Condor Pasa”

  electronica

  emergence and emergent behavior

  Emlen, Stephen

  emotion

  and African American culture

  and animals

  emotional intelligence

  and evolution

  and honest signal hypothesis

  and knowledge songs

  and musical intuition

  in performance

  and religious experiences

  and ritual

  and singing

  and social bonding

  endorphins

  Enlightenment

  epics

  Ethiopian Jewish community

  Étienne

  European classical music

  European starlings

  Eurythmics

  Evans, Bill

  “Eve of Destruction”

  Everett, Daniel

  “Everybody’s Talkin’”

  Every Brothers

  “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”

  evolution and natural selection

  and altruism

  and appearance of music

  and attachment

  and brain physiology

  and consciousness

  and cooperation

  and deception

  and emotion

  and group memory

  and healing power of music

  and hearing

  and honest signal hypothesis

  and language

  and lifestyle changes

  and love

  mechanisms of

  Mitchell on

  music’s role in

  and the perception-production system

  and religion

  and social bonding

  and songs types

  and vocalization

  experimental music

  Fagen, Donald

  Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel

  Falk, Dean

  “Feel Like Makin’ Love”

  Ferguson, Jim

  Ferry, Brian

  Fifth Symphony (Beethoven)

  Fifth Symphony (Tchaikovsky)

  The 5th Dimension

  “Fight and Scratch”

  “Fire and Rain”

  Fisher, Helen

  fitness, adaptive

  Fitzgerald, Ella

  Five Books of Moses

  Fleetwood Mac

  “Flip Flop and Fly”

  Flower Drum Song

  flow state

  Foghat

  folk music

  Foo Fighters

  Fordham, Julia

  Foreigner

  “Foreplay-Long Time”

  “The Forsaken Maiden”

  “For What It’s Worth”

  the Four Tops

  FOXP2 gene

  Frankl, Viktor

  the Fray

  frequency sensitivity

  the Fresh Prince

  friendship songs

  frogs

  “From Me to You”

  frontal cortex . See also prefrontal cortex

  Frost, Robert

  “The Funeral March”

  funeral rituals

  funk music

  GABA regulation

  Gandalf

  “Gangsta’s Paradise”

  Garcia, Jerry

  García Márquez, Gabr
iel

  Garfunkel, Art

  Gass, Aubry

  Gaye, Marvin

  Geertz, Clifford

  Genesis

  genetics. See also evolution and natural selection

  Genzlinger, Neil

  Gettysburg Address

  Getz, Stan

  “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” (Whitman)

  “Give Peace a Chance”

  Gjerdingen, Robert

  “God Bless America”

  “God Save the Queen”

  “Going Down Slow”

  Gola culture

  Gopnik, Adam

  Gordon, Deborah

  gospel music

  Graceland (Simon)

  “The Graduation March”

  Grand Funk Railroad

  Grateful Dead

  “The Great Gig in the Sky”

  “The Great Intoxication”

  Greatest Songs of the Twentieth Century

  Greeks

  Griffin, Stewie

  Griffith, Nanci

  Grohl, Dave

  group agency

  group memory

  group size

  growth hormone (GH)

  Guitar Player

  Gulf War

  Guthrie, Woody

  Gyllenberg Foundation

  Hadrian’s Wall

  “Hail to the Chief”

  hallucinogens

  Handel, George Frideric

  Handy, John

  “Happy Birthday”

  “Happy Together”

  “Hard Work”

  harmony

  harp music

  Harris, Emmylou

  Haselton, Martie

  “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”

  Haydn, Joseph

  Hayes, Darren

  health and healing

  “Heard It Through the Grapevine”

  hearing

  Hearts and Minds

  heavy metal music

  Hebb, Bobby

  Hebrew culture. See also Judaism

  “The Heist”

  “Help Me”

  Hendricks, Jon

  Hendrix, Jimi

  “Here Comes the Rain Again”

  “Here Comes the Sun”

  “Hey Jude”

  Hinduism

  hip-hop music

  “Hokey Pokey, The”

  “Hold On”

  Holekamp, Kay

  Holiday, Billie

  Holiday Inn (musical)

  The Hollies

  “Homegrown Tomatoes”

  Homo erectus

  homonyms

  Homo sapiens

  honest signal hypothesis

  “Honey Pie”

  “Hooked on a Feeling”

  “Hot Blooded”

  “Hotel California”

  “House of the Rising Sun”

  Houston, Whitney

  Howlin’ Wolf

  “How to Build a Time Machine”

  “How to Save a Life”

  hunter-gatherers . See also prehistoric man

  Huron, David

  ITPRA model

  on brain evolution

  on earliest songs

  on emotion and natural selection

  on generational changes in music habits

  and honest signal hypothesis

  on knowledge songs

  on lullabies

  on the Mekranoti people

  on sad music

  TRIP version of ITPRA model

  on ubiquity of music

  Huxley, Aldous

  Huxley, Parthenon

  “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”

  Ian, Janis

  “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

  “I Can’t Stand the Rain”

  “I Don’t Wanna Talk About It Now”

  “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”

  “If”

  “If I Had a Hammer”

  “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”

  “I Got You (I Feel Good)”

  “I Just Can’t Help Believing”

  “I Know an Old Lady, Who Swallowed a Fly”

  Iliad (Homer)

  “I’ll Follow the Sun”

  “I’ll Get You Back”

  “I Love a Rainy Night”

  “I’m All That”

  immune system

  “I’m Not In Love”

  Inanna

  India.Arie

  Indian culture

  indigo buntings

  Indigo Girls

  “I Never Went to Bed with an Ugly Woman (But I Sure Woke Up with a Few)”

  infants . See also children

  instinct

  internal rhymes

  “In Too Deep”

  intuition

  iPods

  Iraq War

  Isaak, Chris

  Isaiah

  “I Say a Little Prayer”

  Islam

  Isley Brothers

  ITPRA process

  “Itsy-Bitsy Spider”

  “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad”

  “I Walk the Line”

  “I Walk the Line, (Revisited)”

  “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

  “I Want You Back”

  Jackson, Benjamin Clarence “Bull Moose”

  Jackson, Janet

  Jackson, Michael

  the Jackson Five

  Janata, Petr

  Jarrett, Keith

 

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