The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (44 page)

Bernstein, Leonard
 
Berry, Chuck
 
Bharucha, Jamshed
 
“Big Long Slidi’ Thing”
 
“Big Science”
 
“Black Cat”
 
Black Sabbath
 
Blake, William
 
Blind Melon
 
Blood, Sweat & Tears
 
“Blowin’ in the Wind”
 
bluegrass music
 
Blue
(Mitchell)
 
Blue Öyster Cult
 
blues music
 
“Bodhisattva”
 
Bolcom, William
 
bonobos
 
Boomtown Rats
 
Borat
 
Boston (band)
 
“Boulder to Birmingham”
 
“A Boy Named Sue”
 
Brahms, Johannes
 
brain physiology.
See also specific structures and substances
 
and auditory imitation
 
and brain disorders
 
and diet
 
and drug use
 
and emotion
 
and evolution
 
and hallucinogens
 
and hearing
 
and language
 
and lobotomies
 
and parsimony
 
“Parts of the Brain” song
 
physiological impact of music
 
and recent research
 
and rhythm
 
and ritual
 
and sad music
 
and singing
 
and stress
 
and tension in music
 
brain stem
 
“Bridge Over Troubled Water”
 
“Bring ‘Em All In”
 
“Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)”
 
Brodmann area 44 (BA44)
 
Brook, Michael
 
Brown, James
 
Brownsville Station
 
“Buddha Buddha”
 
Buddhism
 
Buffalo Springfield
 
Bunge, Mario
 
Burdon, Eric
 
burial
 
Burns, Robert
 
Busta Rhymes
 
Byrne, David
 
on comfort songs
 
on emotion in songs
 
on happiness
 
on love songs
 
scientific approach to music
 
on spiritual inspiration
 
 
“California Girls”
 
“California Sun”
 
call-and-response singing
 
cantillation
 
Carey, Mariah
 
the Carpenters
 
“Carry On Wayward Son”
 
Casablanca
 
“A Case of You”
 
Cash, Johnny
 
Cash, Rosanne
 
cave art
 
“Cecilia”
 
“Celibacy Blues”
 
cerebellum
 
ceremonies .
See also
ritual
 
chanting
 
Chapin, Harry
 
Charles, Ray
 
“Cherry Pies Ought to Be You”
 
Chevrolet
 
Chicago (band)
 
“Chicago” (song)
 
the Chicago Seven
 
children
 
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
 

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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

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