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MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN, REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION BY OLIVER SACKS

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

Product Details

Paperback: 448
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2008-09-23
Edition: Revised & enlarged
ISBN: 1400033535

List Price: $14.95
       Price: $10.17

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Revised and Expanded

With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 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.

Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.

Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan


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