Bryce Dessner: Humanist Heroics and Masculinised Music (opens in new tab)

In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers the sound of masculine sensitivity through the scores of Bryce Dessner When people cry at the movies, it’s usually the music that induces the tears. The magic of music is that it can irrationally, apolitically and even randomly upset you. It can act as a triggering mechanism, artfully deployed to exploit our sentimentality. Some moviegoers pride themselves on always being in control of what they deem good in art, but e...