Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Vintage) - Softcover

Sacks, Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400033535 ISBN 13: 9781400033539

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008

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Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. 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 clatteri

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"Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind." --The New York Times"Curious, cultured, caring. . . . Musicophilia allows readers to join Sacks where he is most alive, amid melodies and with his patients." --The Washington Post Book World"Sacks has an expert bedside manner: informed but humble, self-questioning, literary without being self-conscious."--Los Angeles Times"Sacks spins one fascinating tale after another to show what happens when music and the brain mix it up." --Newsweek"Sacks once again examines the many mysteries of a fascinating subject." --The Seattle Times

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Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go wrong when we listen to music, and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1400033535
• ISBN 13: 9781400033539
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448