Why does music have such a powerful psychological hold on us?<\/p>\n
You can read a book or a newspaper, and you will indeed receive information. But if you hear the same thing in a well-crafter song, you may end up embracing it as a core tenet of belief.<\/p>\n
I believe that this reflects an evolutionary imperative. Clearly music had an advantage to proto-humans first emerging into the world.<\/p>\n
And all of us reap the benefit of that evolutionary legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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