This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession Book

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.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    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.

  • Foyles

    Ever wondered why you can identify your favourite song from hearing only the first two notes? Or why you cant get that annoying jingle out of your head? Daniel ...

  • 1843547163
  • 9781843547167
  • Daniel J. Levitin
  • 1 May 2008
  • Atlantic Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 328
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