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

By Oliver Sacks

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2008
ISBN
1400033535, 9781400033539
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
370 kB (379100 bytes)
Edition
Revised & enlarged
Pages
425\0
Time added
2013-12-20 23:07:46

Description

Revised and ExpandedWith 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.

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