This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin - ISBN: 9780241987353
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Unlock the symphony of science behind our musical minds.

This is Your Brain on Music

Understanding a Human Obsession

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    17 September 2019

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Summary

The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This I…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241987353
ISBN-10:0241987350
Author:Daniel Levitin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:17 September 2019
Weight:238g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

Fluent and readable… [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think… We are, he says, hard-wired for music.

Fluent and readable… [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think… We are, he says, hard-wired for music. * Observer *Consistently interesting… Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development * Literary Review *Endlessly stimulating – Oliver SacksMusic seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know… Daniel Levitin’s book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox – StingYou’ll never hear music in the same way again * Classic FM magazine *

About The Author

Daniel Levitin

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music, published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind. Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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