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Podcast: Religion on the Mind
Episode: Working Out Trauma Through Music (#180)
Description: *This episode is not about trauma-focused music therapy, but rather the language festival-goers use around trauma and healing*In today's dual-feed release (also on my Pretty Good Vibrations Podcast), ethnomusicologist and author Nathan Myrick (Ph.D., Baylor University) joins me to discuss his research project studying the community surrounding Furnace Fest, a faith-adjacent heavy music festival held in Alabama. Nathan’s work focuses on "understanding humanity through the music they make, engage, and participate in." In a surprisingly emotional conversation for me, we cover the lasting effects the Christian punk/hardcore scene has had on...