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Racconti sulla musica e il cervello

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An edition of Musicophilia (2007)

Musicofilia

Racconti sulla musica e il cervello

Prima edizione digitale
  • 3.8 (20 ratings) ·
  • 160 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

Un giorno, a New York, Oliver Sacks partecipa all’incontro organizzato da un batterista con una trentina di persone affette dalla sindrome di Tourette: tutti appaiono in preda a tic contagiosi, che si propagano «come onde». Poi il batterista inizia a suonare – e come per incanto il gruppo lo segue con i tamburi, fondendosi in una perfetta sincronia ritmica. Questo stupefacente esempio è solo una particolare variante del prodigio di «neurogamia» che si verifica ogniqualvolta il nostro sistema nervoso ‘si sposa’ a quello di chi ci sta accanto attraverso il medium della musica. Presentando questo e molti altri casi con la consueta capacità di immedesimazione, in Musicofilia Sacks esplora la straordinaria robustezza neurale della musica e i suoi nessi con le funzioni e disfunzioni del cervello. Allucinazioni sonore, amusia, disarmonia, epilessia musicogena: da quali inceppi nella connessione a due vie fra sensi e cervello sono causate? Come sempre l’indagine su ciò che è anomalo getta luce su fenomeni di segno opposto: l’orecchio assoluto, la memoria fonografica, l’intelligenza musicale e soprattutto l’amore per la musica – un amore che può divampare all’improvviso, come nel memorabile caso del medico che, colpito da un fulmine, viene assalito da un «insaziabile desiderio di ascoltare musica per pianoforte», suonare e persino comporre. Grazie alle testimonianze dei pazienti di Sacks ci troviamo così a riconsiderare in una nuova prospettiva appassionanti interrogativi, e assistiamo ai successi della musicoterapia su formidabili banchi di prova quali l’autismo, il Parkinson, la demenza. Dai misteriosi sogni musicali che ispirarono Berlioz, Wagner e Stravinskij, alla possibile amusia di Nabokov, alla riscoperta dell’«enorme importanza, spesso sottostimata, di avere due orecchie»: ogni storia cui Sacks dà voce illumina uno dei molti modi in cui musica, emozione, memoria e identità si intrecciano, e ci definiscono.
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2008, Vintage Canada
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2008, Alfred A. Knopf
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Published in
Milano, Italia
Copyright Date
2008
Translation Of
Musicophilia
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English

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OL26459010M
ISBN 10
8845972615
ISBN 13
9788845972614
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898740500
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species.

Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people–from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth; from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds–for everything but music.

Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.

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What an odd thing it is to see an entire species - billions of people- playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patters, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call "music."
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