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Music -- just vibrations in the air -- can make you feel heartbroken or elated, peaceful or stabby, inspired to save the whales or to invade Poland. This is HOW MUSIC DOES THAT.
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One film score changed everything.
Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.
How did wall-to-wall music find its way into every public space? Meet General George Squier.
How a few inaccurate jingles came to represent entire cultures.
After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong.
The mark of a great film score is knowing when to shut up.
They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.
HOW MUSIC DOES THAT returns with a Mexican bandleader whose coloristic imagination defined the sound of the space age.
![Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a6244c1772b8ba07136766039d7a49e6.jpg "Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]")
The revolution starts right damn now.
![The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c690adf52e30b4128f96eee32d1297a4.jpg "The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]")
30,000 people. 16 measures. One bad decision.
![The Evolution of Cool [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0b95c13e3670594c53619a5c813bf247.jpg "The Evolution of Cool [Encore]")
The quality of 'cool' in music has deep evolutionary roots in the brain.
![Grooves [Encore]](https://s3.castbox.fm/0e/34/89/f90e5aa06f80bc6cb02d3981b802512091_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Grooves [Encore]")
In Hungary, road plays you!
![Beethoven Was Deaf [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c2500f0f8eab02ea25cbc03bc83b5bcc.jpg "Beethoven Was Deaf [Encore]")
That's not the amazing part.
![Silence [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f8f4205657e910c22b91d1882e900f53.jpg "Silence [Encore]")
Sometimes the greatest moment in music is the one you don't hear.
![Where Did We Put Vivaldi? [Encore]](https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2341d0c6457b47a1f6e160930458c973.jpg "Where Did We Put Vivaldi? [Encore]")
After greatness came one bad decision—and then, the forgetting.
Sometimes it's supposed to hurt.
Eight hundred years ago, they left the church and found the world.
Put on the good Dockers, Chad. We're going in.
Most covers stay on the surface. Sara Bareilles got down into the bones.
Let's have a wild time.
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