How Music Does That

Dale McGowan

Music -- just vibrations in the air -- can make you feel heartbroken or elated, peaceful or stabby, inspired to save the whales or to invade Poland. This is HOW MUSIC DOES THAT. Click the website link to subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google...

  • 24 minutes 35 seconds
    The 1977 Line
    One film score changed everything.
    11 August 2024, 3:56 pm
  • 17 minutes 32 seconds
    The Haunting of Figure 8
    Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.
    24 July 2024, 4:56 pm
  • 20 minutes 17 seconds
    How MUZAK Does That
    How did wall-to-wall music find its way into every public space? Meet General George Squier.
    13 February 2024, 3:34 pm
  • 23 minutes 45 seconds
    Riffing on Each Other
    How a few inaccurate jingles came to represent entire cultures.
    7 January 2024, 6:44 pm
  • 17 minutes 41 seconds
    Anatomy of an Earworm
    After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong.
    14 December 2023, 4:38 pm
  • 31 minutes 19 seconds
    When the Music Doesn't Trust You
    The mark of a great film score is knowing when to shut up.
    29 October 2023, 8:51 pm
  • 27 minutes 10 seconds
    Unsung
    They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.
    15 October 2023, 8:34 pm
  • 26 minutes 41 seconds
    The King of Space-Age Pop!
    HOW MUSIC DOES THAT returns with a Mexican bandleader whose coloristic imagination defined the sound of the space age.
    30 September 2023, 4:12 pm
  • 26 minutes 55 seconds
    Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]
    The revolution starts right damn now.
    2 January 2022, 8:59 pm
  • 19 minutes 37 seconds
    The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]
    30,000 people. 16 measures. One bad decision.
    8 December 2021, 8:36 pm
  • 14 minutes 26 seconds
    The Evolution of Cool [Encore]
    The quality of 'cool' in music has deep evolutionary roots in the brain.
    28 November 2021, 4:59 pm
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