Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
The Independent best books of the year
The Guardian best books of the year
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.
Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.
- ISBN10 1843547163
- ISBN13 9781843547167
- Publish Date 1 May 2008 (first published 3 August 2006)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English