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    Music Is Good for Your Immune System!

    Gotta say...I agree with this based on my own experience!

    https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/musi...s/202004150125
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    Dave - link does not seem to work. Your link got a bunch of extra stuff on the front end of it somehow.

    This seems to work: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/musi...s/202004150125
    Last edited by John Morgan; 04-21-2020 at 09:05 PM.
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    Thanks, John! It should work now.
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    Music absolutely makes me feel better, and I suspect it is good internally as well. It is interesting how much interest is being generated in classical music during this pandemic. That is a very good thing (music interest that is). It always gripes me when they have the Grammy awards and classical music is just a blip on the radar, hardly even mentioned, and a lot of what they call music gets all the attention. Guess I am sounding my age...
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    However one feels about the benefits of playing or listening to music, there are some wonderful examples of pseudo-science in this particular "research paper". It's a great mishmash of references and "summaries" of unconnected "research" from a variety of sources which are stirred together indiscrimminately and then used to make some vague inferences about the effects of music on human organisms.

    Some interesting disclaimers in the journal's web pages -- such as there being "no connection with any society or association, related to Biology and allied fields". It's "peer review" process is really sketchy, among other things allowing the author(s) to provide the names of the reviewers to be used. And its parent company (SCIENCEDOMAIN International) appears to be nothing more than a "publication mill" which advertises an easy way to have your papers published so that you can refer to them in your CV and grant applications (they're actually explicit about this!). For publishing your article there is an "Article Processing Charge" and a "Publication Charge". If you want reprints, there is an additional "Reprint Charge". Yep, it's "pay to play" publication for your "research".

    But yes, playing music makes us feel better. Beyond that, I'd take care in making any further assumptions about our enhanced immunity. I remain still hunkered down in rural NC.
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    Regardless of the science in this article (and I'm not sure how one could do careful studies to prove/disprove such a thing), we all know that music can lift the soul. I believe it's also true that your attitude and mood can affect your health.

    Remember that scene in "The Glenn Miller Story" where they punch up the march music for the Army-Air Corps marching units ("St. Louis Blues"), and suddenly the men look more energized? I have experienced that first hand in college and it made a big impression on my young brain. The Hawkeye Marching Band did the homecoming parade every year (I suppose they still do that). It was a fairly long parade if you are marching "college style" with high steps and swagger at a brisk tempo.* Toward the end of the parade we were all really dragging. But then the drums used a jazzier cadence for a couple minutes, and it really did lift our spirits and make us march better. We looked sharper, moved "snappier", etc. I have experienced that many times since then. So it would seem there is a pretty good connection between your spirits and your body.

    * When I got into the Coast Guard Band, there was no training at the time. On my 5th day we went for an overnight to Martha's Vineyard, where we did a concert and parade. During the parade, I had two problems. First, I was used to high-stepping. While that is a lot of work, I didn't appreciate until that day how much smoother it was for marching while playing when you step down on the ball of your foot, vs. your heel. Doing a natural walk-style march made my mouthpiece pound my chops until I learned how to compensate. The second problem was that military bands don't swagger (swing their instruments from side to side). The trombone player next to me had to keep reaching over and grabbing my bell to remind me to stop swaggering!
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    On a side note, I have lost virtually all faith in "peer-reviewed" literature, especially in the social sciences. Eight years on a tenure and promotion committee (among other things) took that faith away. More and more "peer-reviewed" journals are "pay to play," as Gary stated above, rather than scholarly.

    OK--now I'm gonna go downstairs, fire up Band-in-a-Box, and play some Bill Evans tunes. It'll make me feel better. ;-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Morgan View Post
    Music absolutely makes me feel better, and I suspect it is good internally as well. It is interesting how much interest is being generated in classical music during this pandemic. That is a very good thing (music interest that is). It always gripes me when they have the Grammy awards and classical music is just a blip on the radar, hardly even mentioned, and a lot of what they call music gets all the attention. Guess I am sounding my age...
    Same for Jazz...it's even a blippier blipolette...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snorlax View Post
    Same for Jazz...it's even a blippier blipolette...
    Agreed, Jim!! There really should be maybe a separate night for actual music like classical (instrumental and opera), jazz, wind ensemble, Sinatra/Streisand/Céline Dion type stuff, etc. That would be a switch.

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