Bibliograph

This is your brain on music, understanding a human obsession, Daniel Levitin

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This is your brain on music, understanding a human obsession, Daniel Levitin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is your brain on music

Responsibility statement

Daniel Levitin

Sub title

understanding a human obsession

Summary

This book offers 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, this book 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. This book offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Target audience

adult

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