What Is Moosic?

Call It whatever you want!

I've said before how music can be used as a tool to help you feel emotions or to help you completely avoid those emotions. Playing an uplifting track in the background of what feels like things falling down around you can completely flip those feelings upside down. Whether it's a sad track or a track that's offering you good vibes, hearing lyrics that you relate to in a way that you're feeling the emotions that the artist was experiencing when they wrote that song is something very special. Frank Sinatra said it best, and a lot of times in life you'll be "riding high in April and shot down in May." So see, he knew... I'm sure there are many studies of the benefits/relation of music on mental health and I'm certainly not the person to professionally share that so go seek that out! It's just interesting to me, which is why I've definitely delved into the ethnomusicology-type-books. (if ya don't know, look it up) I Definitely love any bit of music theory I can try to learn because I certainly don't know much of that. I highly recommend the book "How Music Works" by David Byrne for a good mix of it all. Back to the ethnomusicology dominant books, I highly recommend "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten and "Heavy: How Metal Changes The Way We See The World" by Dan Franklin. I've also read just about every autobiography from and biography on every musician I might adore. "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain was definitely a good read though it had mostly very un-relatable stories for me. I also recommend musical stories like "Run Rose Run" by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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