The 'Moist' Mind Virus: Why We Hate Wet Sounds
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The 'Moist' Mind Virus: Why We Hate Wet Sounds
Growing fears about music coincided with booming piano sales and a mushrooming middle class. In 1824, a wellness book called The Family Oracle of Health underlined “the bad effects of music on the nerves” and claimed a single performance of a Rossini opera had caused “more than forty cases of brain fever, or violent convulsions.” Music needed a war
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Repugnance warning that we've gone too far even when we have no moral justification "shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder"
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