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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel 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 is Your Brain on Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.
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`A dissection of music that inexorably builds to a grand finish... it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.' -- David Byrne, Talking Heads
`Endlessly stimulating.'
-- Oliver Sacks
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`Endlessly stimulating.'
-- Oliver Sacks
Daniel Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGillUniversity, where he holds the James McGill Chair in Psychology of Electronic Communication. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he was a session musician, sound engineer and record producer. He has written extensively for scientific journals and music trade magazines.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1843547155
- ISBN 13 9781843547150
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