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Audio Recording Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

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Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University’s Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in a conversation on emotions, the brain and music.

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Title

  • Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

Running Time

  • 20:46

Speakers

  • David Huron
  • Steve Mencher

Online Format

  • web page
  • pdf
  • audio

Podcast Series

  • Music and the Brain

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Chicago citation style:

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?. 2010. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/why-do-listeners-enjoy-music-that-makes-them-weep/.

APA citation style:

(2010) Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/why-do-listeners-enjoy-music-that-makes-them-weep/.

MLA citation style:

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?. 2010. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/why-do-listeners-enjoy-music-that-makes-them-weep/>.