This is Your Brain on Music Understanding a Human Obsession

From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes The New York Times bestseller which unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music. *****. 'What do the music of Bach Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?' . Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature even more fundamental to our species than language. . From Mozart to the Beatles neuroscientist psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel 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.. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music and what it can teach us about ourselves. . *****. 'Music seems to have an almost wilful evasive quality defying simple explanation so that the more we find out the more there is to know . . . Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' Sting. 'You'll never hear music in the same way again' Classic FM magazine. 'Music Levitin argues is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development' Literary Review|Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology training at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton 2006) published in nineteen languages and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs (Dutton 2008) and The Organized Mind (Viking 2014). Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal Canada.|Fluent and readable... [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are he says hard-wired for music.|Consistently interesting... Music Levitin argues is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development|Endlessly stimulating|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... Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox|You'll never hear music in the same way again|From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes The New York Times bestseller which unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music*****'What do the music of Bach Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?' Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature even more fundamental to our species than language. From Mozart to the Beatles neuroscientist psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel 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.In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music and what it can teach us about ourselves. *****'Music seems to have an almost wilful evasive quality defying simple explanation so that the more we find out the more there is to know . . . Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' Sting'You'll never hear music in the same way again' Classic FM magazine'Music Levitin argues is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development' Literary Review