Cobb chapter 8

Music plays the role of role of a drug in popular culture.  What we listen to ushers us into a state of euphoria for which we will gladly pay $16.99 ($9.99 from i-tunes) every single time.  The salvific aspect of music is it’s ability to rescue you from your present circumstances and transport you into another dimension, at least mentally.  The appeal is that we can enter a world that is not truly ours.  We can live vicariously through words and rhythms that at first don’t belong to us, but as we listen become ours.