Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
ASIN: B000W939JI
Manufacturer: Knopf
Release Date: 2007-10-16
Average Customer Review: 
(From 59 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon Significant Seven, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with music inside me,” and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer’s patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a “musical species.” –Dave Callanan
Book Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
Not His Best Work by Alan Holloway
Somewhat engaging, but not nearly as good as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, or An Anthropologist on Mars.
interesting by Luis S. Malaga Leme
It’s very well written. Have interesting cases and lot’s of serious cientifical discussion. I’t will certainly become a “must have” for Music educators and other kinds of musicians.
Musicophilia by V. Snowhill
The book was fascinating. In addition to offering a comprehensive set of narratives about extraordinary mental conditions involving the perception of music, it provided an entry into awareness of the activities of the brain, as they are now known. It also suggested some provocative philosophical and theological questions. “
Random, uninteresting stories by Van M. Snyder
I was expecting some information on how the music affects the mind, learning, etc. However, this was just a bunch of unrelated stories about the strange effect of brain injuries on people. Maybe I would have read more if the stories were developed enough to care about the people in the stories, but I stopped reading the book 1/2 way through. Sacks seems to have “phoned it in” on this one.
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