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This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. Levitin

This Is Your Brain on Music

The Science of a Human Obsession
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2007
New American Library (Verlag)
978-0-452-28852-2 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.

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. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he 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

A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.

Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies, and Successful Aging. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

This Is Your Brain On MusicIntroduction
I Love Music and I Love Science—Why Would I Want to Mix the Two?
1. What Is Music?
From Pitch to Timbre


2. Foot Tapping
Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony


3. Behind the Curtain
Music and the Mind Machine


4. Anticipation
What We Expect from Liszt (and Ludacris)


5. You Know My Name, Look Up the Number
How We Categorize Music


6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away from Me
Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain


7. What Makes a Musician?
Expertise Dissected


8. My Favorite Things
Why Do We Like the Music We Like?


9. The Music Instinct
Evolution's #1 Hit


Appendices
Bibliographic Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 202 mm
Gewicht 249 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Mechanik
ISBN-10 0-452-28852-5 / 0452288525
ISBN-13 978-0-452-28852-2 / 9780452288522
Zustand Neuware
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