Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
New York : Vintage Books, 2008.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: Revised and expanded, first Vintage Books edition.
Description: xv, 425 pages ; 21 cm
"Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds - for everything but music. Dr. Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia." - Back cover.
Contents:
Haunted by music -- Range of musicality -- Memory, movement, and music -- Emotion, identity, and music.
ISBN:
9780307267917 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-409) and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2341 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 370 KB).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-409) and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2341 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 370 KB).