Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience

Produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Taking a look at the How and Why of music, the team that brought you the Peabody-Award winning series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on Music brings you a new six-part series, The Nerve: Music & the Human Experience.

Music is found in every culture worldwide. It's our constant companion, from birth through childhood, love, marriage and death. It has a starring role on every stage of the great human drama - whether we are at war or at prayer, by ourselves or with others, happy or sad - music is there. But does it really have a purpose? Where does it come from? And why does it have such power over our hearts and minds?

Taking a look at the How and Why of music, the team that brought you the Peabody-Award winning series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on Music brings you a new six-part series, The Nerve: Music & the Human Experience.

Contact: thenerve@cbc.ca


6 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Cheesecake? Or sex, baby talk, and social interaction? Set in the Key of DNA, The Nerve 2 examines what the purpose of music is and has been, yeste...

Bought by KSJD, WUAL, WPSU-FM, KRCB, WFPL News and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:40
  • Purchases: 12
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The Nerve 4 congregates a variety of opinions from multiple faiths to adress why music so enchants and entrances us.

Bought by WPSU-FM, WUAL, KSJD, KRCB, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:32
  • Purchases: 12
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Just how much power does music have to create a sense of "me" and "you", of "us" and "them"? How can songs written by other people be described as ...

Bought by WPSU-FM, WUAL, KSJD, KRCB, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:32
  • Purchases: 12
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The Nerve 6 wonders whether music really is the language of our emotions.

Bought by WPSU-FM, WUAL, KSJD, KRCB, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:32
  • Purchases: 12
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From pipes, to drums, to thunder runs, The Nerve 3 takes a serious look at the dark side of music.

Bought by WPSU-FM, WUAL, KSJD, KRCB, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:54
  • Purchases: 12
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The Nerve Part 1 looks at how we are wired for sound – and just how all the wonder that music makes possible, is possible itself in the first place.

Bought by KUT, KSJD, WUAL, WPSU-FM, KRCB and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:53:32
  • Purchases: 13