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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9780452288522
Publisher: Dutton
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.05
Language: English
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. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he 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
- That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise
- How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our head
A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
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