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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Levitin, Daniel J
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Dutton Adult, 2006-08-03. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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Music, Science, and the Brain are more closely related than you think. Daniel J. Levitin, James McGill Professor of Psychology and Music at McGill University, shows you why this is. In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin ( The World in Six Songs ) explores the connection between music, its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it, and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise How those insidious little jingles (called earworms ) get stuck in our head Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
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- Title
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
- Author
- Levitin, Daniel J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0525949690
- ISBN 13
- 9780525949695
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- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006-08-03
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