How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath)

Music can give us goosebumps. It can make us cry. It can make us move. How?

Guests: Amelia Meath, songwriter and singer in Sylvan Esso (sylvanesso.com); Elizabeth Margulis (elizabethmargulis.com),  director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University and author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (elizabethmargulis.com/on-repeat)

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