The World in Six Songs - How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Informationen zum Autor Daniel J. Levitin , PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He trained at Stanford University Medical School, The University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Oregon. He is founding dean of Arts and 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, and A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics . He divides his time between Montreal and California. Klappentext Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, having trained at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the Number One bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music , published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind . Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Zusammenfassung Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human. A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the ' soundtrack of civilisation' .

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Levitin, Levitin Daniel
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780241987810
• ISBN: 978-0-241-98781-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Evolution, popular science, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, MUSIC / History & Criticism, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Business Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability, ART / Performance, Popular psychology, General & world history, Music Industry, Neurosciences, Theory of music & musicology, Developmental biology, Human Growth & Development, Evolutionary anthropology, Theory of music and musicology, Human growth and development