EP 23 - The Church of Music

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Selected References:

2:07 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 22 - What is Life? from March 2022 (but recorded in January 2022)3:48 - Listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing Ave Maria (YouTube)7:39 - The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt7:54 - The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Heinrich8:03 - This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin12:15 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 21 - The Myth of the Desert Island Self from January 202212:30 - Collective effervescence is a sociological concept coined by Émile Durkheim, read the Wikipedia entry and see “There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing” (New York Times, 2021)16:51 - See “About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated” (Pew Research Center, 2021) and “U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious” (Pew Research Center, 2015)17:55 - Lorna Marshall was an anthropologist who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert (Wikipedia)18:25 - Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam18:35 - Listen to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Episode 186 - Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity from February 202219:44 - See the Tony Hsieh Wikipedia entry and “The Death of Zappos’s Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior” (Wall Street Journal, 2020)26:21 - Phish34:01 - Listen to Bobby Darin sing “Beyond the Sea” (YouTube)36:22 - Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, Connecticut37:12 - Listen to John Prine and Iris DeMent perform Prine’s tune “In Spite of Ourselves” (YouTube)37:20 - Listen to “Something” by The Beatles and “The Man In Me” by Bob Dylan (YouTube)41:58 - Listen to “The Weight” by The Band47:40 - Church of Music (San Diego)56:20 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 6 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics  from November 2020,  Episode 13 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics Part 2: Just the Facts from April 2021, and  Episode 16 - Partisan Pizza from July 2021

This episode was recorded in March 2022

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti