The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the ' soundtrack of civilisation' .

ISBN:	9780241987810
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	04 Jul 2019
DEWEY:	781.11
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	354
Weight:	270g
Height:	132mm
Width:	198mm
Spine width:	36mm

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