Melophobia

Check out my latest for Vice magazine’s “anti-music” issue, an overview of “melophobia” (fear of music). Do you know someone who says they don’t like music? Someone who doesn’t own a single CD or an iPod? Are they always turning the radio down? And when pressed on the subject, do they shrug and say they don’t really “getâ€? music? Never could quite figure that person out, could you? Your friend’s weird lack of taste could be the result of melophobia, a little-understood but very real neurophysiological condition. So turn that iPod down and read-on, for interviews with Dr. Marsha Johnson (audiologist and clinical director at the Oregon Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Clinic), John Loudenbeck (a sound engineer who struggles with melophobia) and Julie Hope, a grandmother who has dealt with “musicogenic epilepsy” (music-triggered seizures) her whole life. Music is all around us…and melophobia is real!

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