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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)
 
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)
 
Lard
 
“The Last Song”
 
Latin American music
 
Leary, Timothy
 
Leaves of Grass
(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)
 
Lord, Albert
 
The Lord of the Rings
(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)
 
“Love Me Do”
 
“Love Me Tender”
 
“Love the One You’re With”
 
Lovin’ Spoonful
 
LSD
 
lullabies
 
Lynne, Jeff
 
lyrics
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)
 
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)
 
“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
 
Nazis
 
Neanderthals
 
Nelson, Willie
 
neuroscience.
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)
 

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