How Music Rewires and Impacts the Human Body | Michael Spitzer

Music is at least a million years older than language, yet we still see it solely through the lens of entertainment. Professor Michael Spitzer argues it's something closer to a biological system, one that was shaping the human body long before we had words for what we were feeling.

Why does a chord you've never heard before make you want to cry? Why do babies respond to rhythm before they've heard a single song? Why does the same part of your brain that processes mortal danger also process musical beauty? The answers reach back 4 million years, and forward into a future where music may be prescribed like medicine.

0:00 Chapter 1: The history of music
18:00 How civilization changed music
24:52 Chapter 2: The universality of music
37:00 How the west thinks about music all wrong
42:37 Chapter 3: Your brain on music
45:45 Why music gives you goosebumps
00:52:46 Chapter 4: The future of music