Music is as much physical as intellectual for Sheila Converse, clinical
assistant professor of music. (Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services)
assistant professor of music. (Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services)
By Eric Sorensen, Washington State Magazine
What is music good for?
“If you look cross-culturally, you’ve got music in just about every culture in some form or another,” said Steve Lakatos, associate professor of psychology at WSU Vancouver who studied music history and theory as a Yale undergraduate. “It would seem that there is something universal about music in the sense that it’s not just pleasurable, but it’s almost a necessity of a culture.”
It’s as if we’re tapping into some deep reservoir of our being.
Read more in the spring issue of Washington State Magazine here.