The Great Divide

David Olivares In many social spheres of music, it is accepted that a divide lies between classical and popular music wherein classical is more existent in association with your mind and popular is so with your body. However, I personally believe that both sides can be part of both the mind and the body. The

Music, Mind, and Body

Alexandria Carrington Imagine you’re at your favorite musician’s concert. What is the atmosphere of the venue? Are you being shoved around in a mosh pit, or are you watching the performance attentively in your chair? Each genre of music has different concert etiquette. Oddly enough, before the Romantic period of music, an audience at a

Is There a Separation Between Mind and Body in Music? (Hint: There Isn’t)

-Spencer Soule As you can probably guess by my title, I have a strong feeling about whether there is a separation between mind and body in music, more specifically, if the mind should be attributed to classical and body to popular. While, yes, some songs in those genres certainly focus on that, it is definitely

Blog 3: What about the body?Mind & Body

–Lydia Chen Personally speaking, I do not fully agree that classical concert music is on the mental side and popular music is on the body side. I think this divide is too absolute. To illustrate, I think classical music and popular music both include the mental side and popular music side. Take me as an