jazz music
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Starship
Jennings, Peter
“Jesus Paid It All”
“Jingle Bells”
“Jocko Homo”
“Joe and Rosalita”
Joel, Billy
“Johnny B. Goode”
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jones, George
Jones, Rickie Lee
Jones, Tom
Jonson, Ben
joy songs
Judaism
Judas Priest
jump ‘n’ jive music
“Just the Way You Are”
Kansas
Kanefsky, Yosef
Kantner, Paul
Kapferer, Bruce
Kaplan, Aryeh
Karajan, Herbert von
Kassorla, Hayyim
Kazakhstan
“Keep On Lovin’ You”
Keith, Toby
Kennedy, Robert
Kent State massacre
Kesey, Ken
“Kicks”
Kindermusik
Kindertotenlieder (Mahler)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Klein, Howie
Klingons
Kanefsky, Yosef
knowledge songs
Kota people
Kraftwerk
Krause, Allison
Kreen Akrore Indians
“Lady”
language
The Language Instinct (Pinker)
Lard
“The Last Song”
Latin American music
Leary, Timothy
Leaves of Grass (Whitman)
Led Zeppelin
Lee, John Alan
“Lemon Tree”
“The Lemon Song”
Lennon, John
“Let It Be”
“Let It Die”
“Let It Rain”
“(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear”
“Let’s Work Together”
“Let the Sunshine In”
L-gulonolactone (GULO)
Little Eva
“A Little Luck of Our Own”
Living Colour
lobotomies
“The Locomotion”
“Log Blues”
Look into the Eyeball (Byrne)
Lord, Albert
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
love and love songs
and evolution
and honest signal hypothesis
and neurochemistry
and romantic love
and self-delusion
and social bonding
Love in the Time of Cholera (García Márquez)
“Love Me Do”
“Love Me Tender”
“Love the One You’re With”
Lovin’ Spoonful
LSD
lullabies
Lynne, Jeff
lyrics See also rhyme; specific titles
Magnetic Fields
Mahadevan, Rajan
Mahler, Gustav
“Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
Maori culture
Marais, Marin
“March of the Pigs”
marching
Marcus, Gary
Margoliash, Daniel
marijuana
Marks, Gerald
marriage ceremonies
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maurice of Orange
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
Mayfield, Curtis
Mbuti culture
McCartney, Paul
McFarlane, Seth
McFerrin, Bobby
McGovern, Maureen
McMillen, Michael C.
McNeill, William
McRae, Wallace
“Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”
Mekranoti people
melatonin
melody
memory
and children’s songs
and chunking
constructive aspects
and earliest songs
gist memory
group memory
and knowledge songs
and love songs
and lyrics
and marijuana use
and mnemonics
and oral tradition
parsimony in
and rituals
rote memorization
and semantics
and song structure
and text recall
Mental as Anything
mescaline
Messiah (Handel)
metaphor
“Mexican Hat Dance”
Meyer, Leonard
mice
“Michelangelo”
microcephalin
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Jeffrey
“Minerva”
Mitchell, Joni
and comfort
on de-evolution
and love songs
and lyrics
and melody
on religion
on spirituality
Mitchell, Tonya
Mithen, Stephen
mnemonics
Moltmann, Jürgen
Money, Eddie
monkeys,
monotheism
mood
“The Morning After”
Morris, Desmond
Morrissey
Moses
motherhood
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mujra, Nadia Ali
“Music Alone Shall Live”
musical instruments ,n
Musicophilia (Sacks)
“My Big Ten Inch”
“My Body Is a Cage”
“My Generation”
“My Guy”
Narmour, Eugene
Nash, Graham
National Guard
Native Americans
“Natural Science”
natural selection. See evolution and natural selection
Nazis
Neanderthals
Nelson, Willie
neuroscience. See also brain physiology
and animal research
and brain evolution
and chemical impact of music
and effect of music on the brain
and emotion
and evolution of love
and honest signal hypothesis
and natural selection
and pleasure
and synchronization
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Newport, Elissa
Newtonian mechanics
The New York Times
New Zealand
Nietzsche, Friedrich
“Night and Day”
“Nights on Broadway”
Nine Inch Nails
“99 Bottle of Beer on the Wall”
9/11
Ninth Symphony (Beethoven)
Nixon, Richard
noise
nonlinear systems
“No Rain”
North America
notation, musical
Nothing Like the Sun (Sting)
Nusbaum, Howard
The Nutcracker
Nuzzo, Regina L.
“O Kazakhstan”
Obama, Barack
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
occipital cortex
octave equivalence
Oden, St. Louis Jimmy
Odyssey (Homer)
“Oh Happy Day”
“Ohio”
the Ohio Express
“Oh My Darling, Clementine”
Old Testament
“One Little Two Little Three Little Indians”
“An Only Kid, An Only Kid”
Ono, Yoko
Oral Torah
oral tradition
Orlando, Tony
“Our Lov
e Is Here to Stay”
“Over the Rainbow”
“Over the River and Through the Woods”
“Over You”
oxytocin
“Padrino”
pair-bonding
Palmer, Robert
pancakes
pandemonium model of human perception
pantheism
“Paralyzed”
“Paranoid”
Parker, Charlie
Parkinson’s disease
Parry, Milman
Parsons, Gram
Parton, Dolly
Partridge, Andy
“Parts of the Brain”
Patel, Ani
Pavlov, Ivan
Payne, Freda
Pearlman, Sandy
Penn, Michael
Pentecost Island
“People Get Ready”
Pepsi
perception
perspective-taking faculty
Petty, Tom
peyote
Phillips, Sam
Phish
phonology
photographic memory
Piaget, Jean
Pierce, Billy
“Pineapple Face”
Pinker, Steven
Pink Floyd
pitch
Plastic People of the Universe
“Please Call Me, Baby”
“Please Please Me”
Pledge of Allegiance
Plimpton, George
poetry ,
“Poetry and Prose”
Poetry Foundation
“Poison Love”
the Police
polygyny
polyrhythms
“Pomp and Circumstance”
pons
pop music
Porter, Cole
Posner, Mike
prayer
“Prayers for Rain”
predators
prediction
prefrontal cortex
and auditory imitation
and development of hearing
and development of language
evolutionary changes
and perspective-taking faculty
and prehistoric man
and rearrangement faculty
and social bonding
prehistoric man . See also hunter-gatherers
preindustrial music
preliterate cultures
Prelutsky, Jack
Premack, David
Presley, Elvis
“Pride and Joy”
primates. See also specific species
Primus
Prince
probability theory
prolactin
prosody
protest songs
protohumans
Prozac
“P.S. I Love You”
Psalms
psilocybin
psychic research
psychology
Puckett, Gary
pygmy music
Qur’an
Rabbit, Eddie
“Rain”
“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”
“Rainin’”
“The Rain Song”
rain songs
“Rainy Days and Mondays”
the Ramones
Rand, Ayn
“The Randall Knife”
Randi, James
rap music
Rappaport, Roy
Ray, James Earl
Raye, Juliana
Read, Herbert
rearrangement faculty
recorded music
recursion
Redding, Otis
redundancy. See repetition
Reed, Lou
Reid, Vernon
relational processing
religion and religious songs
and drug use
and evolution
and knowledge songs
and language barriers
and monotheism
and natural selection
and prayer
recitation of religious texts
religious songs
and rituals
and science
and spirituals
ubiquity of
R.E.M.
Ren & Stimpy
REO Speedwagon
repetition
Repo Man
representation faculty
“The Revolution”
Revolver (the Beatles)
rhyme . See also lyrics
rhythm. See also drums
and brain physiology
and definition of songs
and melody
and memory
polyrhythms
and ritual music
sensitivity to
and sexuality
and social bonding
and song form
and trance states
rhythm and blues
The Rhythm of the Saints (Simon)
Richie, Lionel
“Rise and Shine”
The Rise of the West (McNeill)
ritual
biological origin
and brain physiology
burials and funerals
and call-and-response singing
and children
community rituals
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