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The World in Six Songs
Daniel J. Levitin
其他書名
How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
出版
Penguin
, 2008-08-19
主題
Music / History & Criticism
Science / Acoustics & Sound
Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
ISBN
1101043458
9781101043455
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ILvfk3lU5LMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The author of the
New York Times
bestseller
This Is Your Brain on Music
reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (
The New York Times
).
Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller,
This Is Your Brain on Music
, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second
New York Times
bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.
Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.
Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists.
The World in Six Songs
is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.