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The world in six songs how the musical brain created human nature

The world in six songs how the musical brain created human nature

Levitin, Daniel J.
Restricted EAudiobook (NNELS) 2013

The author of This Is Your Brain on Music showcases his theory of how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms--for knowledge, friendship, religion, joy, comfort, and love. Preserving the emotional history of our lives and of our species, from its very beginning music was also allied to dance, as the structure of the brain confirms; developing this neurological observation, Levitin shows how music and dance enabled t...

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Music Origin
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-329) and index
Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment
Read by multiple readers
Original version: Toronto : Penguin, 2008. 354 pages 9780670067886
System requirements: PC or compatible, or Macintosh; CD-ROM player and drive; MP3 player
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Contents:
Taking it from the top, or, The hills are alive
Friendship, or, War (What is it good for)?
Joy, or, Sometimes you feel like a nut
Comfort, or, Before there was Prozac, there was you
Knowledge, or, I need to know
Religion, or, People get ready
Love, or, Bring 'em all inches
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1212718
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