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This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin

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This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

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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    This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession - Daniel Levitin

    Musician and music producer Levitin takes us on an extraordinary journey to discover the reason why music effects us in the way it does. Reading this makes you appreciate music in a new and exciting way.

    Review by Adam of the London - Islington Borders on 2009-01-30 11:50:44

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ISBN

9781843547167

Published
May 1st 2008 by Atlantic Books
Category
General
Number of pages
328
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
198 x 129

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