Good Vibes: Unlocking music’s hidden power over your brain

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We know that music has the power to affect our moods, but you might be surprised by just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Music can affect our brains and bodies in profound ways. Professor Jessica Grahn tells us how our love for music has shaped us as humans while Nate Sloan unpacks our appreciation of music, and reveals how it can be used to manipulate us, both for bad and for good. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by Defacto Sound. Subscribe on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Switched On Pop wherever you get your podcasts. Also, check out Nate Sloan’s new book, Switched on Pop, wherever you get your books. Follow Jessica Grahn’s music and neuroscience research at the Twitter handle @Neurobeats. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/goodvibes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:07.0	It probably comes as no surprise that music has the power to change our mood.
0:13.0	Perhaps you've experienced the high of a funky song,
0:16.0	or feel your heartbreak to a ballad.
0:19.0	Whether we're consciously aware of it or not, we pick music to suit our tastes and moods
0:22.9	in the moment, which got me wondering, what's actually going on inside our brains when we make
0:27.6	those choices?
0:28.9	Do we control the music, or does the music control us?
0:33.0	To help answer these questions, I need a musicologist. And I just so happen to know one.
0:39.4	Okay, we are live. Just double-check my levels.
0:41.9	Check, check, check, check.
0:42.7	Testing. Testing.
0:44.0	Looking good.
0:46.5	I'm Nate Sloan.
0:47.9	I'm assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music.
0:53.5	And I'm the co-host of the podcast Switched
0:57.1	on Pop.
0:58.4	Right now, you might be wondering what exactly a musicologist is.
1:02.9	A musicologist is, wow.
1:06.2	Tough question right off the bat, Dallas.
1:08.4	A musicologist is someone who studies the history of music
1:14.2	and tries to understand how it both reflects and shapes culture
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