Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Levitin, Daniel J
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0452288525
- ISBN 13
- 9780452288522
- Seller
-
Binghamton, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Plume/Penguin, 2007-08-28. Paperback. Like New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes fine
Synopsis
Music, Science, and the Brain are more closely related than you think. Daniel J. Levitin, James McGill Professor of Psychology and Music at McGill University, shows you why this is. In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin ( The World in Six Songs ) explores the connection between music, its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it, and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin 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 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. A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOILER3087
- Title
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
- Author
- Levitin, Daniel J
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0452288525
- ISBN 13
- 9780452288522
- Publisher
- Plume/Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007-08-28
- X weight
- 9 oz
Terms of Sale
Robinson Street Books, IOBA
All items offered subject to prior sale. Any item may be returned within 30 days of receipt for full refund less shipping both ways. If our error, we will pay shipping both ways.� Shipping is extra.
About the Seller
Robinson Street Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Binghamton, New York
About Robinson Street Books, IOBA
We have been selling books for over 30 years via catalog and lists, as well as open shops. We closed our last open shop in 2003 and now operate out of our warehouse, which contains 500,000 books, journals, periodicals from the 16th Century to the present. We sell on-line as well as via lists and catalogs. We buy collections, accumulations, excess unneeded donations/duplicates, from Museums and Libraries for cash or credit. We have one of the largest collections of offprints in zoology, Botany, Molecular biology available for sale in the world
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
This Book’s Categories
Collecting Classic Supernatural Fiction
Classic supernatural fiction is distinct from contemporary horror because it is more literate and often relies upon poetic subtlety rather than unpleasant gratuity to create an atmosphere. Enter if you dare!
Collecting The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was born out of WWII, and it still continues to exert considerable influence on today’s literary scene. Biblio sellers have a fantastic collection of Beat Generation books and ephemera for browsing.
