The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (48 page)

 
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

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