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Interesting insights
... combines psychology with Soviet history and the meaning of music was always going to catch my eye. My Russian ... Stalin’s regime, and many have conjectured that his music carried coded political messages. In this short book, ... now and again to explain the...
The personal at the heart of the music business
... problems is huge. Empirical evidence backs this up: the music industry really does make people sick . Joe Penhall’s new play, 'Mood Music', currently showing at the Old Vic in London, explores ... complex psychological issues that lie at the heart of...
Dredging the riverbed of our national psyche
... ’. It’s a charge that could be levelled at the music world, too. Like psychologists and psychotherapists, ... grin. Gazelle Twin has always made deeply psychological music. She’s influenced as much by the Freudian dystopian ... horror films of David Cronenberg...
Dark peak
... of an enigma, not only because of their genre-defying music, but also because they wear masks. These are grotesque, ... from Preston, but we have no names, no context for their music. Despite having achieved the front cover of the ... privacy and anonymity...
‘They’ve agreed to build something bigger than themselves’
... is on a mission to introduce new audiences to classical music, showing them that its relevance isn’t restricted to ... ‘Without that sense of coming together we can’t do music, so one of the things that’s really clear to me as a musician, is that music...
Harmonics of the mind
... sat on the chapel floor, surrounded by hair-raising music that took us through the build-up as the participant ... in vivid detail and talked about how the ambient music and the psilocybin interacted and guided him on a ...
The Brexit carnival
... to an unofficial, festive world of extravagant costumes, music, laughter, feasting, drinking and revelry. While the ...
Two reflections on the blackest of mirrors
... describes as subjective. She even opens beer and plays music to help stimulate memories, which has parallels of ...
Fear, confusion and dark humour
... in her illness. Throughout there is immersive, haunting music, performed live on stage, and this accentuates the high ...
Fatalistic tone ultimately helps nobody
... people of my age now resistant to listening to once-loved music from the rock band Lostprophets, after frontman Ian ...
A gothic mystery
... – a safety poster that says ‘Don’t be a victim’. Music is also used to great effect, never playing behind a ...
Mining for myths
... Psychology of Chess , by Fernand Gobet The Psychology of Music, by Susan Hallam The Psychology of Weather , by Trevor ...
Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism
... focus is indispensible in science, maths, technology, music, art and philosophy, among others. Obviously autistic ...
A reset for psychology as natural science
... science, technology, engineering, medicine, culture, music, literature, the Internet and social media all enhance ...