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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With 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.
"Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind." --The New York Times
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.
- Undertittel
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- Forfatter
- Oliver Sacks
- ISBN
- 9781400033539
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 472 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 1.9.2008
- Forlag
- VINTAGE
- Antall sider
- 448
