Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes …
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species.
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people–from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth; from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds–for everything but music.
Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: 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 whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.
Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.
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Musicophilia
Hardcover, 381 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2007 by Picador.
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- 978-0-330-41837-9Copied ISBN!
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Musicophilia
Trade Paperback
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2008 by Vintage Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97979-4Copied ISBN!
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published March 10, 2008 by Picador.
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Musicophilia
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Published Oct. 16, 2007 by Books on Tape.
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- 978-1-4159-4268-0Copied ISBN!
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- 966141638
Musicophilia
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English language
Published Oct. 16, 2007 by Random House Audio.
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- 978-1-4159-4267-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 794205207
Musicofilia
Paperback, 483 pages
Italian language
Published Oct. 1, 2010 by Random House.
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- 978-88-459-2535-1Copied ISBN!
Musicophilia
Epub
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2008 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-307-26791-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 430828373
Musicofilia
Paperback, 464 pages
Spanish language
Published by Anagrama.
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- 978-84-339-7788-5Copied ISBN!
Musicophilia
pocket book, 512 pages
French language
Published by Points.
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- 978-2-7578-4190-7Copied ISBN!
Musicophilia
Audio CD
English language
Published Oct. 16, 2007 by RH Audio.
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- 978-0-7393-5739-2Copied ISBN!
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Musicophilia
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Published Oct. 16, 2007 by Random House Audio.
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Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain
381 pages
English language
Published Nov. 25, 2007
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- 978-1-4000-4081-0Copied ISBN!
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
paperback, 240 pages
Published Aug. 24, 2008 by Picador.
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- 978-0-330-44436-1Copied ISBN!
Musicofilia
Epub
Italian language
Published Jan. 5, 2014 by Adelphi.
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- 978-88-459-7261-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 898740500
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