"Medicine meets music: Tunes on ribs // Medicina incontra musica: sulle note delle costole" di Arianna Poggio
We are all aware of the power of music, its ability to seduce the listener through exquisite melodies, captivating lyrics, which often hide subliminal messages enhancing the intrinsic beauty of a tune. How many memories have we as human beings made on the notes of a beautiful love song or how many times have we cried to depressive lyrics on a sad instrumental base? Music creates emotion, emotion creates music. It is part of human nature. «Music's a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.» No, this is not some philosophical quote about the way music affects our psychology, it is actually Joseph Stalin's opinion on it: apparently he particularly enjoyed Russian classical music, such as Prokofiev and Kozin, whom he both admired immensely. He recognised the power of music as a form of propaganda, so much so that all throughout his dictatorship he censored almost all western music, redeeming it as a form of "capitalist secret weapon" as he went on t...
