Ongoing History Daily: Get your kid in a band
Here’s more proof that learning to play a musical instrument will serve you well in other areas of your life.
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Music
Looking for music-related podcasts? There’s a new directory available
There are so many podcasts out there. As of October 2022, there are at least 2.5 million available with more
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If you have a friend who just can’t dance, it might be a neurological problem
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back during elementary school assemblies for the morning rendition of O Canada,
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 955: Amazing facts about music, the brain, and the body
The most powerful and strangest lump of organic material in the known universe sits inside your skull. The human brain
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In pain? What you might need for relief is the right music: study.
New research into pain management by boffins at Queen Mary University and University College Dublin suggests that music can be
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Ongoing History Daily: The state of music piracy in 1897
Music piracy still exists, but it isn’t the problem that it used to be. But let me quote this: ‘Canadian
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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 18 July 2022
We’re at the point of the year when everything that needed to be out for summer is out. All that’s
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Yet ANOTHER opinion on why today’s music sucks
Over the past few weeks, I’ve run across a number of articles that contend that today’s music sucks. (See here,
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Ongoing History Daily: Can music affect your eyesight?
A study by American scientists from the late aughts seems to indicate that music can affect your eyesight. When you’re
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Can music reduce pain? Science says “yes”
Maybe you’ve experimented with distracting yourself from pain by listening music. It’s certainly worked with me during workouts and irrational
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This video explains why it’s so hard to talk about how music sounds
Language often fails us when it comes to explaining why a rock song sounds like, well, a rock song. This
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