Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let ...

No musical background is required and ukuleles are available to borrow ... People under the age of 60 are welcome to join the class for a $50 fee and bring your own art/music supplies.

That was the conclusion of a study published earlier this year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology that examined the effect of different types of background music on creative problem solving.