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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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Music, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Electronic books, Música, Aspectes psicològics, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Psychology, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Auditory Perception, Aspect psychologique, Musique, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Music, psychological aspectsEdition | Availability |
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This is your brain on music: understanding a human obsession
2008, Atlantic
in English
- Paperback edition
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 16, 2007, Penguin Audio
in English
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 28, 2007, Plume
in English
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This is your brain on music: understanding a human obsession
2007, Atlantic
in English
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 3, 2006, Dutton Adult, Dutton
Hardcover
in English
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This Is Your Brain on Music
May 12, 2006, Pearson P T R
Hardcover
in English
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Originally published: New York: Dutton, 2006; London: Atlantic, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.
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This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.
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