Tag: music
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Florence + the Machine: When a Concert Becomes a Ritual
At a Florence + the Machine concert, I recognized the same charged collective energy I’d felt in Southern Baptist tent revivals and large Wiccan gatherings. Different traditions, same underlying current—songs functioning as spells and prayers.
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Sometimes Music Says It Best
No matter how eloquent or poetic I sometimes wax, there are still times when only a song can say it for me. Even when I myself cannot manage to sing through the tears in my throat or the laughter in my heart. This is one of those times, so I’ll let someone else’s lyrics speak…
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The iPod Mood-Lifter Experiment
One of the quickest ways to lift a bad or negative mood is with music, but what happens if we expand on a mood-lifting song? What happens if your music is uplifting for, say, 2 weeks or a month? By uplifting, I don’t mean “praise music” necessarily, or Pollyanna-Happy-Tunes. I mean whatever music makes you…