The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9780525950738
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525950737
ISBN-13
9780525950738
eBay Product ID (ePID)
154412050
Product Key Features
Book Title
World in Six Songs : How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Acoustics & Sound
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Music, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-012298
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Music seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know, leaving its power and mystery intact, however much we may dig and delve. Daniel’s book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox. There may be no simple answer or end in sight, but the ride is nonetheless a thrilling one, especially in the company of a writer who is an accomplished musician, a poet, a hard-nosed scientist, and someone who can still look upon the universe with a sense of wonder.” --Sting Without music, we would be little more than animals, and Daniel Levitin explains it beautifully.” --Sir George Martin, CBE, producer of The Beatles Why can a song make you cry in a matter of seconds? Six Songsis the only book that explains why. With original and awe-inspiring insights into the nature of human artistry, it’s irresistibly entertaining. Anyone who loves music should read it.” --Bobby McFerrin, vocalist and guest conductor, London Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.” --Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon Daniel Levitin writes about music with all the exuberance of a die-hard fan, and all the insight of a natural-born scientist. This is a fascinating, entertaining book, and some of its most inventive themes may stay stick in your head forever, something like a well-loved song.” --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love To try to cover the meaning of music throughout the history of mankind to how we still use it everyday is extraordinarily ambitious. Combining musical expertise, psychology, anthropology and evolutionary science, Daniel Levitin’s Six Songshas accomplished this astonishing task.” --Jon Appleton, Composer and Professor of Music, Dartmouth College and Stanford University I was skeptical when I began reading. The stated goal seemed outlandish. But by the time I was about one-third the way into The World in Six Songs, I realized just how powerful it is. It really is a tour de force. It is exquisitely written, and brings together a vast array of knowledge, tying things together in creative ways, while always remaining accessible. This promises to be not only another widely read hit, but also an important document for the field of music cognition.” --Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Professor of Psychology, Tufts University Passionate and insightful. Daniel Levitin has written a delightfully personal epic poem proposing a central role for music in the evolution of human emotion and behavior. Now, musicians and neuroscientists have a common vocabulary with which to argue our human origins.” --Julie R. Korenberg, M.D. Ph.D., The Brain Institute, University of Utah In a brilliantly novel approach to human evolution, Levitin has sought to encapsulate diverse cultures in a set of six songs representative of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love. That he is able to achieve so much with this small set of songs says something truly important about our common humanity.” --Michael I. Posner, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon This wonderful, lucid book takes on one of the great eternal questions: Why is there music? What does music do for humanity—for individual development and for a culture--that in turn accounts for its existence in every known society? Daniel Levitin is not only the preeminent expert in answering such questions, but one of those unique writers about science who understands his field so profoundly, Daniel Levitin writes about music with all the exuberance of a die-hard fan, and all the insight of a natural-born scientist. This is a fascinating, entertaining book, and some of its most inventive themes may stay stick in your head forever, something like a well-loved song.” --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Music seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know, leaving its power and mystery intact, however much we may dig and delve. Daniel’s book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox. There may be no simple answer or end in sight, but the ride is nonetheless a thrilling one, especially in the company of a writer who is an accomplished musician, a poet, a hard-nosed scientist, and someone who can still look upon the universe with a sense of wonder.” --Sting To try to cover the meaning of music throughout the history of mankind to how we still use it everyday is extraordinarily ambitious. Combining musical expertise, psychology, anthropology and evolutionary science, Daniel Levitin’s Six Songshas accomplished this astonishing task.” --Jon Appleton, Composer and Professor of Music, Dartmouth College and Stanford University I was skeptical when I began reading. The stated goal seemed outlandish. But by the time I was about one-third the way into The World in Six Songs, I realized just how powerful it is. It really is a tour de force. It is exquisitely written, and brings together a vast array of knowledge, tying things together in creative ways, while always remaining accessible. This promises to be not only another widely read hit, but also an important document for the field of music cognition.” --Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Professor of Psychology, Tufts University This wonderful, lucid book takes on one of the great eternal questions: Why is there music? What does music do for humanity—for individual development and for a culture--that in turn accounts for its existence in every known society? Daniel Levitin is not only the preeminent expert in answering such questions, but one of those unique writers about science who understands his field so profoundly that he can make the complex straightforward. This is an exciting, revelatory book.” --Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocentand Ordinary Heroes Praise for This Is Your Brain on Music Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give.” —Oliver Sacks , M.D., author of Musicophilia The book I’ve been waiting for all my life.” —Nancy Pearl , public radio librarian and auth or of the Book Lust series I loved reading that music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else. . . . Deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.” —David Byrne , founder of Talking Heads Dr. Levitin is an unusually deft interpreter full of striking scientific trivia.” —The New York Times, Praise for This Is Your Brain on Music Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give.” —Oliver Sacks , M.D., auth or of MusicophiliaThe book I’ve been waiting for all my life.” —Nancy Pearl , public radio librarian and auth or of the Book Lust series I loved reading that music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else. . . . Deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.” —David Byrne , founder of Talking Heads Dr. Levitin is an unusually deft interpreter full of striking scientific trivia.” —The New York Times
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
781/.11
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
The author of the New York Times bestseller (six weeks and counting) and Los Angeles Times Book Award Nominee This Is Your Brain on Music (more than 170,000 copies in print) tunes us in to six evolutionary musical forms that provide a window into the human soul. An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitinas debut, This Is Your Brain on Music, delighted readers with an exuberant guide to the neural impulses behind those songs that make our heart swell. Now he showcases his daring theory of asix songs, a illuminating how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental formsafor knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. Preserving the emotional history of our lives and of our species, from its very beginning music was also allied to dance, as the structure of the brain confirms; developing this neurological observation, Levitin shows how music and dance enabled the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve. Blending cutting-edge scientific findings with his own sometimes hilarious experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitinas sweeping study also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, and David Byrne, along with classical musicians and conductors, historians, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The result is a brilliant revelation of the prehistoric yet elegant systems at play when we sing and dance at a wedding or cheer at a concertaor tune out quietly with an iPod.
LC Classification Number
ML3838.L48 2008
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