From Richard Mellish, London, UK
Stefan Koelsch highlights benefits that music can deliver, but we shouldn’t ignore its downsides. We don’t all have the same tastes. A genre that one person enjoys will infuriate another. Consider, for example, the thumping bass coming from a car in a traffic queue. Loud canned music has driven me out of shops. Some film soundtracks mask dialogue(26 July, p 21).
