The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (49 page)

 
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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