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Mar 2021
25m 23s

David Byrne on How Music Connects Us

PRX AND GREATER GOOD SCIENCE CENTER
About this episode

Music helped former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne come out of his shell. Hear Byrne's story and learn how music creates social bonds in part one of our series, The Science of Music and Happiness.

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