This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
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Author: Daniel J. LevitinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN: 0452288525
Number of pages: 322
Publisher: Plume/Penguin
Book Reviews of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Book Review: Fantastic Book!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book does an amazing job of introducing the reader to how the brain works, how it develops in the human, and how it responds to various stimuli including music. Combined with the works of Damasio and Leonard Meyer (U of Chicago), the book immerses the reader in a wonderful sea of information and opens new areas to explore.
I can't recommend the book highly enough.
Summary of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin 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 heads
And, taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. This Is Your Brain on Music is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
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