This Is Your Brain on Music

- Daniel Levitin

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing further than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is abecedarian to our species, maybe indeed more so than language. Drawing on the rearmost exploration and on musical exemplifications ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals 

 • How melodists produce some of the most enjoyable goods of harkening to music by exploiting the way our smarts make sense of the world 

 • Why we're so emotionally attached to the music we heeded to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, orDr. Dre 

 • That practice, rather than gift, is the driving force behind musical moxie 

 • How those insidious little jingles( called earworms) get stuck in our head 

A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract compendiums of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it's an unknown, eye- opening disquisition into an preoccupation at the heart of mortal nature.

About the author

DanielJ. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He's launching Dean of trades & Humanities at the Minerva seminaries at KGI in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He's the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to falsehoods, and Successful Aging.

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