Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
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	Release Date	2008-09-23
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Revised and Extended Together with the same trademark compassion and erudition he delivered to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the situate music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a diversity 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 kids together with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people together 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, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.
Amazon Excellent of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed this he was "born together with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme results of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. Together with clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect together with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who locate order and luxury throughout music), Sacks offers an erudite look at the notion this humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan
Customer Reviews
Music, food for our brain   2010-08-18
By GARY L. Garwood (chicago)
Dr. Sacks does a great job at helping us understand how our brain reacts to music. He identifies how important music is to all of us, though each of us interprets it differently. Intelligent reading!
gift for a friend   2010-07-07
By D. Phillips
It looked like an interesting book, but I have not read it since it was a gift.
Haven't Received it yet   2010-05-23
By N. Clement (San Francisco)
I ordered the book about 1 week prior to leaving the SF Bay Area on my way to our summer place in BC, Canada. I chose the vendor because it was in WA and had it sent to a friend in a neighboring town because I wanted to avoid Canadian customs (time consuming). When I got to my friends home it still had not arrived and did not arrive until a few weeks later. It is still sitting there; so, I haven't' seen it. I know the book as I have read part of it, a loaner from a friend, and look forward to receiving it and finishing that read. But the vendor sure did take a long time...I probably won't use it again.
Musicophilia   2010-05-10
By Ruth (Central, SC)
This is an interesting book for those who hear music in their ears.The author has many anecdotes and explains the brain, its complexity, and offers some insight into the problem, which apparently falls under Tinnitis. Sometimes the music is pleasant, sometimes not. There isn't much of a solution for the problem, but at least you realize you are not the only one, and are not crazy. If you suffer from music hallucinations, read this book.It is easy to read.
Amazing book   2010-04-11
By PPL (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
After reading this books, you feel like wanting to be a neurologist and apply to work with Sacks. He is brillant and the book is a delight to read - as are his other books. I particularly enjoyed "The Anthropologist of Mars". The main theme about the book is music, but don't be fooled, although music is what connects all stories, it is mainly a book about the brain. Even if you are not a big music fan (as I am not) but enjoy learning about the mechanisms of the brain - this is very exciting - specially because it helped me to explain why I am not into music and why different people are touched in different ways by music. I understood why I found some songs interesting and others completely boring, for example.