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

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The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels 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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
17 September 2019
Pages
336
ISBN
9780241987353

The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels 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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
17 September 2019
Pages
336
ISBN
9780241987353