{"id":1667,"date":"2013-10-07T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:45:36","slug":"music-touches-places-nothing-else-can-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Music touches places nothing else can reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/10289976\/Why-music-is-good-for-the-heart.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02662\/heart-pic_2662976b.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>In its onward march, science is always trampling over folk-wisdom<\/strong>. But sometimes a piece of research comes along which shows folk-wisdom might have a point after all. There\u2019s been one in the past week, in a paper given at the European Society of Cardiology Annual Conference in Amsterdam. Professor Deljanin and her colleagues in Belgrade discovered a <strong>19% improvement in a vital bit of heart tissue<\/strong> in patients with coronary artery disease, when they listened to their favourite\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a>, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;We are <strong>not brains in vats<\/strong>, we are embodied creatures, and <strong>\u2018mind\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; that is, the experience of being a living, feeling thing \u2013 <strong>is surely spread out through that body<\/strong>. In any case, the musical experience doesn\u2019t stop at the boundary of the individual person. <strong>Music is a social thing<\/strong>, connected to dancing and singing. It becomes most vividly alive in those moments when we do it, rather than passively witness it,\u00a0says<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006tnsx\/profiles\/ivanhewett\" target=\"_blank\"> Ivan Hewett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/10289976\/Why-music-is-good-for-the-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alison.smith.94009?hc_location=stream\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Smith<\/a> for bringing this to my attention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its onward march, science is always trampling over folk-wisdom. But sometimes a piece of research comes along which shows folk-wisdom might have a point after all. There\u2019s been one in the past week, in a paper given at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,77,41,24],"tags":[483,481,482,484,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}