Daniel Levitin: This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?'

Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language.

From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel 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.

In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music, and what it can teach us about ourselves.

Also available:

Nicholas Cook: Music: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Spitzer The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth (Paperback)

Daniel Levitin: Daniel Levitin: The World in Six Songs