The World in Six Songs
How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the worst idea for a book I've ever heard - it makes me want to vomit. The idea encapsulates the very worst part of Western thought.' One week later...'I take it back - I'm sorry! This is great!' Joni Mitchell In his enthralling and revelatory This...
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This is the worst idea for a book I've ever heard - it makes me want to vomit. The idea encapsulates the very worst part of Western thought.' One week later...'I take it back - I'm sorry! This is great!' Joni Mitchell In his enthralling and revelatory This is Your Brain on Music Daniel Levitin unpicked the pathways of the brain to reveal how human beings have been hard-wired for music. Now, in an astonishing blend of art and science, he unveils his revolutionary theory of 'Six Songs', and describes how music played a pivotal role in the creation of human culture and society. Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human. A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the 'soundtrack of civilisation'. The World in Six Songs will change the way you listen to music for ever.
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel J. Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin ist James-McGill-Professor für Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften an der McGill University in Montreal und leitet dort das Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise. Bevor er sich der neurowissenschaftlichen Forschung zuwandte, war er Musikproduzent mit mehreren goldenen Schallplatten und professioneller Musiker. Levitin hat nicht nur die U.S. Navy beraten (in Fragen der technischen Trennung von Lautquellen), sondern auch mehrere Rockbands (darunter Grateful Dead und Steely Dan) zum Thema Audioqualität sowie verschiedene Musikfirmen. Er hat zahlreiche Artikel in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften wie auch in Musikmagazinen wie Grammy und Billboard veröffentlicht.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel J. Levitin
- 2009, 368 Seiten, Maße: 22 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Aurum Press
- ISBN-10: 184513477X
- ISBN-13: 9781845134778
Sprache:
Englisch
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