This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 4 days | |Short Description for This is Your Brain on Music Explains how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, this work 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.
Full description- Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Published: 01 May 2008
- Format: Paperback 328 pages
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- Categories: Theory Of Music & Musicology | Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials | Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology | Perception | Philosophy Of Science | Wave Mechanics (vibration & Acoustics) | Human Biology
- ISBN 13: 9781843547167 ISBN 10: 1843547163
- Sales rank: 2,032
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Full description for This is Your Brain on Music
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.
