In an interview on NPR, Faith revealed her and her kids hid for five hours before they managed to escape the mall. “The music that plays in the shopping mall — just kind of this tranquil music — was still playing throughout this whole thing, so amidst the gunfire and all the action that was happening, you had this kind of mall music that played throughout the entire attack,” award-winning photographer Tyler Hicks (who took the stunning photo) said. “[The mom] actually was singing along with those songs to her children to keep them calm and quiet — especially the young boy who she said rarely can sit still for five minutes and she had to keep him calm and quiet for five hours.”
Music has long been used to help ease stress and calm the nerves. We see the coercive power of music if it is of excessive volume, or has an overwhelming beat, at rock concerts where thousands of people may be taken over, engulfed or entranced by the music. Even now, there is a whole genre of modern dance music called ‘Trance,’ designed to have such an effect.
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