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“In Too Deep”
intuition
iPods
Iraq War
Isaak, Chris
Isaiah
“I Say a Little Prayer”
Islam
Isley Brothers
ITPRA process
“Itsy-Bitsy Spider”
“I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad”
“I Walk the Line”
“I Walk the Line, (Revisited)”
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
“I Want You Back”
Jackson, Benjamin Clarence “Bull Moose”
Jackson, Janet
Jackson, Michael
the Jackson Five
Janata, Petr
Jarrett, Keith
jazz music
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Starship
Jennings, Peter
“Jesus Paid It All”
“Jingle Bells”
“Jocko Homo”
“Joe and Rosalita”
Joel, Billy
“Johnny B. Goode”
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jones, George
Jones, Rickie Lee
Jones, Tom
Jonson, Ben
joy songs
Judaism
Judas Priest
jump ‘n’ jive music
“Just the Way You Are”
Kansas
Kanefsky, Yosef
Kantner, Paul
Kapferer, Bruce
Kaplan, Aryeh
Karajan, Herbert von
Kassorla, Hayyim
Kazakhstan
“Keep On Lovin’ You”
Keith, Toby
Kennedy, Robert
Kent State massacre
Kesey, Ken
“Kicks”
Kindermusik
Kindertotenlieder
(Mahler)
(Mahler)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Klein, Howie
Klingons
Kanefsky, Yosef
knowledge songs
Kota people
Kraftwerk
Krause, Allison
Kreen Akrore Indians
“Lady”
language
The Language Instinct
(Pinker)
(Pinker)
Lard
“The Last Song”
Latin American music
Leary, Timothy
Leaves of Grass
(Whitman)
(Whitman)
Led Zeppelin
Lee, John Alan
“Lemon Tree”
“The Lemon Song”
Lennon, John
“Let It Be”
“Let It Die”
“Let It Rain”
“(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear”
“Let’s Work Together”
“Let the Sunshine In”
L-gulonolactone (GULO)
Little Eva
“A Little Luck of Our Own”
Living Colour
lobotomies
“The Locomotion”
“Log Blues”
Look into the Eyeball
(Byrne)
(Byrne)
Lord, Albert
The Lord of the Rings
(Tolkien)
(Tolkien)
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
love and love songs
and evolution
and honest signal hypothesis
and neurochemistry
and romantic love
and self-delusion
and social bonding
Love in the Time of Cholera
(García Márquez)
(García Márquez)
“Love Me Do”
“Love Me Tender”
“Love the One You’re With”
Lovin’ Spoonful
LSD
lullabies
Lynne, Jeff
lyrics
See also
rhyme;
specific titles
See also
rhyme;
specific titles
Magnetic Fields
Mahadevan, Rajan
Mahler, Gustav
“Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
Maori culture
Marais, Marin
“March of the Pigs”
marching
Marcus, Gary
Margoliash, Daniel
marijuana
Marks, Gerald
marriage ceremonies
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maurice of Orange
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
Mayfield, Curtis
Mbuti culture
McCartney, Paul
McFarlane, Seth
McFerrin, Bobby
McGovern, Maureen
McMillen, Michael C.
McNeill, William
McRae, Wallace
“Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”
Mekranoti people
melatonin
melody
memory
and children’s songs
and chunking
constructive aspects
and earliest songs
gist memory
group memory
and knowledge songs
and love songs
and lyrics
and marijuana use
and mnemonics
and oral tradition
parsimony in
and rituals
rote memorization
and semantics
and song structure
and text recall
Mental as Anything
mescaline
Messiah
(Handel)
(Handel)
metaphor
“Mexican Hat Dance”
Meyer, Leonard
mice
“Michelangelo”
microcephalin
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Jeffrey
“Minerva”
Mitchell, Joni
and comfort
on de-evolution
and love songs
and lyrics
and melody
on religion
on spirituality
Mitchell, Tonya
Mithen, Stephen
mnemonics
Moltmann, Jürgen
Money, Eddie
monkeys,
monotheism
mood
“The Morning After”
Morris, Desmond
Morrissey
Moses
motherhood
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mujra, Nadia Ali
“Music Alone Shall Live”
musical instruments ,n
Musicophilia
(Sacks)
(Sacks)
“My Big Ten Inch”
“My Body Is a Cage”
“My Generation”
“My Guy”
Narmour, Eugene
Nash, Graham
National Guard
Native Americans
“Natural Science”
natural selection.
See
evolution and natural selection
See
evolution and natural selection
Nazis
Neanderthals
Nelson, Willie
neuroscience.
See also
brain physiology
See also
brain physiology
and animal research
and brain evolution
and chemical impact of music
and effect of music on the brain
and emotion
and evolution of love
and honest signal hypothesis
and natural selection
and pleasure
and synchronization
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Newport, Elissa
Newtonian mechanics
The New York Times
New Zealand
Nietzsche, Friedrich
“Night and Day”
“Nights on Broadway”
Nine Inch Nails
“99 Bottle of Beer on the Wall”
9/11
Ninth Symphony
(Beethoven)
(Beethoven)
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