The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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In the first instance, she is explicitly telling her story to him, and it is a profoundly moving journey.

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I hope my son holds the songs I have passed onto him tightly as we both get older, and that he enjoys moulding his specific, different memories around them. I told him she was Rebecca Lucy Taylor, she was brilliant, and wrote songs about how tough things could often be for girls, but how great girls should know they are, too. Jude Rogers’‘The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives’, our April Book of the Month, is published today by White Rabbit Books. M.'s Drive soundtracked her teen obsession with Michael Stipe and her thrill at interviewing her hero several years later.The difference in vocal folds size between men and women means that they have differently pitched voices. If an abductory movement or adductory movement is strong enough, the vibrations of the vocal folds will stop (or not start). So in effect, for me, that song plays, one thing fires, and it’s linked to the cells that represent my stepdad – it triggers those connections.

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When she used to think about him, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells often played in her mind, a piece of music that made her feel emotional, even though she couldn’t link it to a specific memory. Of course, we all felt like that about someone, or several someones, but most of us aren’t brave enough to say so in public. The weekend of July 21 to 23, it even outgrossed “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” according to Rotten Tomatoes, taking third place in earnings behind the “Barbenheimer” behemoth. Why are some songs so inextricably linked with certain people, places and feelings, despite all the million different times we might have heard them? Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon attended the screening and said the movie could “unite the country,” according to The Guardian.Moving and absorbing, The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir, analysis, anecdote and personal chronicle into a mosaic that evokes what music means to the individual and the human tribe. The more evolved parts of our brain prompt music-associated memories, so our responses aren’t just animalistic reactions. It is a song: Super Trouper by ABBA, their melancholy-drizzled disco epic that is almost as well-known in the Western world as a nursery rhyme.