Call Him a Youngian
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As a psychologist who specializes in and teaches a university course on the psychology of modern music, I appreciate Steve Hochman’s review of Neil Young’s “Are You Passionate?” (April 7).
The cathartic value of music can’t be valued enough in this age of new rage. But there’s a marked difference between vomiting up emotions like the band Disturbed does so disturbingly, or delivering those same bottled-up emotions with both grit and grace.
When it comes to the latter, Neil Young is king.
BRUCE L. THIESSEN
Sacramento
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