coming soon – “The World in Six Songs” by Daniel J. Levitin
Written on August 10, 2008
Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, has a new book coming out this month (Aug. 19 from Dutton) —The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, one of Amazon’s Best Books of August in nonfiction.
From the book website:
“What was the first song that humans sang and why did music become an integral part of human life from the beginning? Levitin tells the story of the co-evolution of music and of the human brain, how each one influenced the development of the other over tens of thousands of years. An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin’s best-selling debut, This Is Your Brain on Music (translated into 8 languages), changed the way we think about how music gets in our heads. Now in what is being called a tour de force by leading scientists, he shows how six specific forms of music played a pivotal role in creating human culture and society as we know it. Levitin masterfully weaves together the story of human evolution, music, anthropology, psychology and biology from the dawn of homo sapiens to the present.”
Filed in: cognitive science,culture,new books.
