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

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by Levitin, Daniel J.


  contrasted with religion

  life-cycle rituals

  mating rituals

  and motor action sequences

  music’s role in

  origin of

  and religious practices

  and repetition

  and state-changing utterances

  and synchronous singing

  time and place constraints

  and trance states

  “Road Fever”

  Robison, Paula

  “Roble”

  rock music

  See also individual rock music song titles

  Roe, Tommy

  Roethke, Theodore

  Rogel, Randy

  the Rolling Stones

  Romans

  romantic love

  Rose, Gary

  Rose, Tricia

  Ross, Diana

  “Row Row Row Your Boat”

  Rubin, David

  Rubinstein, Artur

  “Running Wild”

  “Runnin’ with the Devil”

  “Run That Body Down”

  Rush

  Russell, Leon

  “Russians”

  Sacks, Oliver

  sadness

  Saffran, Jenny

  Salk Institute

  Santana, Carlos

  Sapolsky, Robert

  Saul, King of Israel

  “Saving All My Love For You”

  Scheuer, Sandra

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Schoolhouse Rock

  Schroeder, William

  science and scientific method

  Scott, Jill

  Scott, Mike

  Sebastian, John

  Seeger, Pete

  selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

  Selfridge, Oliver

  semantics

  sensilla

  Sephardic Jewish liturgy

  serotonin

  sex and sexuality

  Shakur, Tupac

  shamanic healing

  “Shame On the Moon”

  sharks

  Shaw, Artie

  “She Loves You”

  Shepard, Roger

  Shine (Mitchell)

  Shorter, Wayne

  sign language

  Silverstein, Shel

  Simon, Carly

  Simon, Paul

  Simons, Seymour

  Sinatra, Frank

  singing

  and brain physiology

  and definition of songs

  and emergent properties

  and memory

  and motherhood

  and natural selection

  physiological effects of

  and social bonding

  and synchronization

  types of

  and vocal grooming hypothesis

  The Singing Neanderthals (Mithen)

  “Sippin’ Cider Through a Straw”

  Sirhan, Sirhan

  Sixth Symphony (Beethoven)

  69 Love Songs (Magnetic Fields)

  Sleater-Kinney

  Sledge, Percy

  Smash Mouth

  smell

  Smith, Bessie

  Smith, Kate

  Smith, Will

  Smiths

  “Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room”

  Smothers, Tommy

  snow, and Aleutians’ twenty reputed words for

  Snow, Hank

  social bonding

  and animals

  and brain evolution

  and ceremonies

  and communal songs

  and country music

  and friendship songs

  and group size

  and honest signal hypothesis

  and isolation

  and love songs

  and material wealth

  music as binding force

  and sad music

  and singing

  and social skills

  and synchronization

  and TRIP model

  and trust

  and vocalization

  and workplace music

  Solomon, King of Israel

  “Something”

  Song of Atonement

  Song of Solomon

  Songs from the Capeman (Simon)

  “Sounds of Science”

  Sousa, John Philip

  Spain

  speech. See also language

  spirituality . See also religion and religious songs

  Springsteen, Bruce

  Sri Lanka

  SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)

  “Stand By Your Man”

  the Standells

  Stanford University

  Staota Yasna

  Star Trek: The Next Generation

  “The Stars and Stripes Forever”

  “The Star-Spangled Banner”

  statistics

  Steely Dan

  Sternberg, Robert

  Stevens, Ray

  Stewart, Rod

  “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”

  Stills, Stephen

  Sting

  on earliest songs

  influence of music

  on joy songs

  on love songs

  on lyric-melody relationship

  on social impact of music

  and study of music

  use of lyrics

  Stipe, Michael

  Storr, Anthony

  “Stranger with the Melodies”

  the Stranglers

  “Strong in the Wrong”

  Stylistics

  Styx

  “Sugar, Sugar”

  “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”

  Sulawesi culture

  “Sun King”

  “Sunny”

  Sun Records

  Sun Tzu

  “Superstar”

  superstition

  the Supremes

  “Suspicious Minds”

  Sweet Anticipation (Huron)

  “Sweet Little Sixteen”

  symbols

  synchronization

  and emergent properties

  and marching

  and rituals

  in singing

  and social bonding

  strict synchrony

  and vocal grooming hypothesis

  and warfare

  “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

  Talking Heads

  Talmud

  Tattersall, Ian

  Taylor, James

  T-cells

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

  “Teach Your Children”

  “Technology and Musical Aesthetics”

  techno music

  the Temptations

  Ten Commandments

  tension

  thalamus

  THC (tetrahydrocannibinol)

  “theory of mind”

  They Might Be Giants

  This Is Your Brain on Music (Levitin)

  “This Land Is Your Land”

  Thomas, B. J.

  “Through My Sails”

  Thucydides

  “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”

  timbre

  “Tobacco Road”

  tonality

  “Tonight”

  tonotopy

  tools and tool making

  “Too Much”

  Torah

  Tormé, Mel

  Torry, Clare

  “Tracy”

  trance states

  transposition

  Trehub, Sandra

  “Twist and Shout”

  trust

  truth. See also honest signal hypothesis

  “Turkey in the Straw”

  “Turn, Turn, Turn”

  Turnbull, Colin

  Turner, Big Joe

  Turner, Tina

  turn taking

  “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

  “Twist and Shout”

  “Two Tickets to Paradise”

  “Underwear�


  “Unforgettable”

  the Union Gap

  United States Constitution

  “Universal Soldier”

  University of California, Berkeley

  Urban, Keith

  “Valentine’s Day”

  Van Gogh, Vincent

  Van Halen

  Vanuatu

  Varèse, Edgar

  Vassar, Phil

  Vaughan, Stevie Ray

  The Velvet Underground

  Vendler, Helen

  Vervet monkeys

  vestibular system

  “Vidéo”

  Vietnam War

  Vines, Bradley

  vision

  visual music

  vitamin C

  vocal communication. See also language

  vocal grooming hypothesis

  vocalizations

  Vonnegut, Kurt

  vowel sounds

  Wainwright, Rufus

  Waits, Tom

  “Wake Up Sunshine”

  “Walk Between the Raindrops”

  “Walk on the Wild Side”,

  “Walkin’ on the Moon”

  Wallace, Wanda

  war

  “Warrior”

  “War (What Is It Good For?)”

  Washington, Dinah

  the Waterboys

  The Water Garden

  “We Are the World”

  weather

  “We Built This City”

  “The Wedding March”

  “The Wedding Song (There Is Love)”

  Werner, Dennis

  “We Shall Overcome”

  Western society/culture

  Westmoreland, William

  “We You Dearest Friends”

  “Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?”

  “What We Really Want”

  Wheeler, Tom

  “The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round”

  “When a Man Loves a Woman”

  “When I’m Sixty-Four”

  “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

  “Whip It”

  “Whistle While You Work”

  “White Rabbit”

  Whitman, Walt

  the Who

  “Who Is Sylvia?” (Schubert)

  “Whole Lotta Love”

  “Who’ll Stop the Rain”

  “Who Loves the Sun”

  Why We Love (Fisher)

  Williams, Hank

  “The Wind and the Rain” (Frost)

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wishbone Ash

  Wolf, Hugo

  Woodruff, Guy

  Woolf, Virginia

  work and music

  “Working on the Highway”

  World War II

  “The Wreck of the Old 97”

  writing. See also language

  Wynette, Tammy

  The X Factor (Plimpton)

  XTC

  “Yakko’s World”

  Yes

  “You and Me and Rain on the Roof”

  “You Are My Sunshine”

  “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim”

  “You Gave Me the Answer”

  “You Love to Fail”

  Young, Neil

  “Your Cheatin’ Heart”

  “Your Mother Should Know”

  “Yummy Yummy Yummy”

  Zadeh, Aziza Mustafa

  Zappa, Frank

  “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”

  Zoroastrianism

  About the Author

  Daniel J. Levitin is the James McGill Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Music at McGill University, where he runs the Laboratory for the Study of Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Quill Award (best debut author), and named as one of the Globe & Mail’s Top Books of 2006. He lives in Montreal, Canada.

 

 

 


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