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This is Your Brain on Music : Understanding a Human Obsession - Daniel Levitin

This is Your Brain on Music

Understanding a Human Obsession

Read by: Daniel Levitin

Author: Daniel Levitin

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11:46.35

Published: 20th February 2020

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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

© Daniel Levitin 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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