Resonance: Why Music Moves Us

A song comes on and your skin reacts before your brain catches up. You gasp at a key change. A chorus you've heard a thousand times leaves you crying in a parking lot. Something in your chest tightens when you walk into a cathedral, before anyone has spoken a word.

We've spent centuries calling this entertainment.

RESONANCE: Why Music Moves Us makes the case that music is a biological stimulus with direct physical access to the body, sitting in the same category as pain. Not because they're i...