How Music Does That

By Dale McGowanMusic

How Music Does That episodes

August 11, 2024 The 1977 Line
One film score changed everything.
25 min
July 24, 2024 The Haunting of Figure 8
Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.
18 min
February 13, 2024 How MUZAK Does That
How did wall-to-wall music find its way into every public space? Meet General George Squier.
21 min
January 07, 2024 Riffing on Each Other
How a few inaccurate jingles came to represent entire cultures.
24 min
December 14, 2023 Anatomy of an Earworm
After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong.
18 min
October 29, 2023 When the Music Doesn't Trust You
The mark of a great film score is knowing when to shut up.
32 min
October 15, 2023 Unsung
They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.
28 min
September 30, 2023 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.
27 min
January 02, 2022 Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]
The revolution starts right damn now.
27 min
December 08, 2021 The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]
30,000 people. 16 measures. One bad decision.
20 min

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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.

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