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; Elizabeth Margulis,  director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University and author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

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