This is your brain on music by Levitin & Daniel J
Brand: A PLUME BOOK
Product Description
In this groundbreaking union of art and science rockerturnedneuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance its composition how we listen to it why we enjoy itand the human brain. 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 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 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 eyeopening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature. show more
Condition : New
Author : Levitin Daniel J
Weight : 392.16
Publisher : A PLUME BOOK
Language : English
EAN : 9780452288522
ISBN10 : 0452288525
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20061031
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 135 X 203 X 18mm