This Is Your Brain on Music
What:
This Is Your Brain on Music
Who:
Daniel Levitin
Where:
Folio Books, 80 Albert St, Brisbane, and all good book stores.
How much:
$26.95
Music Lover? Check. A little bit nerdy? Check. Ever wondered how music and memory work together? Wondered why all teenagers since 1997 enjoy the song Scatman and anything by Venga Boys? Have you wondered why people either love or hate Weezer? This Is Your Brain on Music helps answer these questions.
Daniel Levitin is a character worthy of a story all of his own. Levitin is a former record producer, all round music maker, neuroscientist and writer. His latest creation is a stunning study of the beauty of music and how it actually affects our brains. We all have those songs, those albums that take you back to a time, a place, a smell, a lover. This Is Your Brain on Music unravels the mysteries of how music does this and why. Levitin helps us understand what happens inside our heads when that particular song pulls at your heart, and why some people get it and others simply don't.
For some music is an obsession that dictates their lives, for others it is purely something they listen to between the ridiculous banter of radio presenters on their way to work. If you do love music than this non fiction page turner will keep you entertained for hours and will give you the ammunition you need to explain to your housemates why you just spent your last $50 to see that band and now you have no money to pay this weeks rent.
Format: Book
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
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