This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Abridged)

What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves?
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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington ...