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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

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#3484 of 3,809 books · #516 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2006).

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. 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

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101218914
Topics
Neuroscience of musicCognitive scienceMusic perception

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