This is Your Brain on Music

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.
Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Aceasta este prima carte care ofera o explicatie cuprinzatoare a modului in care oamenii experimenteaza muzica si care dezvaluie misterul perenei noastre relatii amoroase cu aceasta. Folosind exemple muzicale de la Bach la Beatles, Levitin dezvaluie rolul muzicii in evolutia umana, arata cum preferintele noastre muzicale incep sa se formeze chiar inainte de a ne naste si explica de ce muzica poate oferi o astfel de experienta emotionala. Muzica este o obsesie in inima. de natura umana, chiar mai fundamentala pentru specia noastra decat limbajul.