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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Songs To Help You Study

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you're at school and need to concentrate while hitting the books. Maybe you're trying to get work done and need some sounds to drown out distractions. When silence isn't cutting it, sometimes you need music that'll fill your head without distracting you with words. Today, we're recommending three great songs to help you study.

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Maybe you're at school and need to concentrate while hitting the books. Maybe you're trying to get work done and need some sounds to drown out distractions.

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For when silence isn't cutting it, we've got recommendations for pieces of out distractions for

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for pieces of music that'll fill your head

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without distracting you with words.

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I'm Stephen Thompson.

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And I'm Linda Holtz.

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Today we're recommending three great songs to help you study on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

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It's just me and Stephen today. Let's dive right into it. Stephen, when you think of great

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music for studying, what do you think of? Well, I think primarily of instrumental music

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just because words can be distracting when you're trying to read or concentrate.

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So I chose entirely instrumental music.

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I like to think of music that fills your head in a way without distraction.

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And so I like something that has a little bit of heft to it. in a

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way without distraction and so I like something that has a little bit of heft to it, but also a certain musicality, a certain energy to it.

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It doesn't necessarily have to be fast and loud,

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but you don't want something that's going to fade completely into the background.

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So I like a certain musicality to go with just a heavy sound.

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Right. So what is your first pick?

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My first pick is a wonderful jazz violinist named Regina Carter.

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I first heard her at the tiny desk a bunch of years back and I've loved her ever since.

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The piece that we're going to play is a jazz song, but it's also weaving in

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traditional African music in really interesting and beautiful ways. You get a bunch of

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