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Tales of Music and the Brain

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An edition of Musicophilia (2007)

Musicophilia

Tales of Music and the Brain

First Edition
  • 3.80 ·
  • 20 Ratings
  • 145 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

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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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
Pages
400

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Cover of: Musicofilia
Musicofilia: racconti sulla musica e il cervello
2008, Adelphi Edizioni
in Italian
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 16th printing
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008-09, Vintage Books
Paperback in English - Rev. and expanded, 1st Vintage Books ed. (13)
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008, Vintage Canada
Trade Paperback in English - Vintage Canada Edition
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2007-11, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 7th printing
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2007, Knopf
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Musicophillia
Musicophillia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2007-11, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 5th printing
Cover of: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2007, Alfred A. Knopf
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
2007, Picador
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Copyright Date
2007

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ML3830 .S13 2007
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Hardcover
Number of pages
400

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ISBN 10
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ISBN 13
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2007006810
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225308443, 300393881
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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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