WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/836168580

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

Analyzes six evolutionary musical forms while identifying neural impulses that reflect the brain's development in accordance with music, illuminating the sophisticated biological process that accompanies the musical experience.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "World in six songs"@it
  • "World in 6 songs"@en
  • "How the musical brain created human nature"
  • "how the musical brain created human nature"

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Analyzes six evolutionary musical forms while identifying neural impulses that reflect the brain's development in accordance with music, illuminating the sophisticated biological process that accompanies the musical experience."@en
  • "Levitin explores how the evolution of our brains made music, art, science, and society possible. He uncovers six fundamental ways that songs communicate emotion and ideas--songs of friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge and love--and so have built human nature. Mixing cutting-edge neuroscience, his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business, and illuminating interviews with experts from Sting and David Byrne to conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists, Levitin reveals the prehistoric, elegant systems at play when we sing and dance at weddings, cheer at a concert, or tune out privately with an iPod."@en
  • "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 the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve. Blending scientific findings with his own experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell, and David Byrne, along with classical musicians and conductors, historians, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music's role in the evolution of human culture-and "will leave you awestruck" (The New York Times) Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history. Dr. Levitin identifies six fundamental song functions or types-friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love-then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these "six songs" work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species. Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved-right up to the iPod. Read Daniel Levitin's posts on the Penguin Blog."@en
  • "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 the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve. Blending scientific findings with his own experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell, and David Byrne, along with classical musicians and conductors, historians, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists.--From publisher description."
  • "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 the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve. Blending scientific findings with his own experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin also incorporates wisdom gleaned from interviews with icons ranging from Sting and Paul Simon to Joni Mitchell, and David Byrne, along with classical musicians and conductors, historians, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists.--From publisher description."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "El cerebro musical : seis canciones que explican la evolución humana"@es
  • "The world in six songs : how the musical brain created human nature"
  • "The world in six songs : how the musical brain created human nature"@en
  • "The world in six songs how the musical brain created human nature"
  • "The world in six songs how the musical brain created human nature"@en
  • "The World in Six Songs : How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature"
  • "The world in six songs : How the musical brain created human nature"@en
  • "Il mondo in sei canzoni : come il cervello musicale ha creato la natura umana"@it
  • "Die Welt in sechs Songs : warum Musik uns zum Menschen macht"
  • "Il mondo in sei canzoni : come il cervello musicale ha creato la natura umana"
  • "The world in six songs = how the musical brain created human nature"

workExample