Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Amazon Significant Seven, 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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I was looking for an interesting book about how music interacts with the human mind. What I got was a list of case studies of patients with varying degrees of amusia. Some of the stories are interesting and present exciting insight into the human mind the the effects music has upon it, but most stories are repetitive, long, and uninteresting.
This was the first book I've read by Sacks after hearing much high praise for him, but I do not plan to purchase any of his other works after this mostly uninspired read.
If you are interested in case studies of people losing and/or regaining their ability to hear music then perhaps this book is for you. If you are looking for a look inside the human brain and its interactions with music as I was, you will likely find this book lacking. |
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