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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. 9780330418386

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Picador. 2008

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  • EAN: 9780330418386
  • ISBN: 978-0-330-41838-6
  • Editorial: Picador
  • Fecha de edición: 2008
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Dimensiones: 13x20
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 430

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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, andunforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.

CONTENIDO

Preface
Part I. Haunted by music
1. A bolt from the Blue: Sudden Musicophilia
2. A Strangely familiar feeling: Musical seizures
3. Fear of Music: Musicogenic epilepsy
4. Music on the brain: Imagery and imagination
5. Brainworms, sticky music, and Catchy tunes
6. Musical hallucinations

Part II. A range of musicality
7. Sense and sensibility: A range of musicality
8. Things Fall apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia
9. Papa Blows his noise in G: Absolute Pitch
10. Pitch imperfect: Cochlear Amusia
11. In Living Stereo: Why we have two ears
12. Two Thousand Operas: Musical Savants
13. An auditory world: Music and blidness
14. The key of clear green: synesthesia and music

Part III. Memory, movement, and music
15. In the moment: Music and Amnesia
16. Speech and song: Aphasia and Music Therapy
17. Accidental Davening: Dyskinesia and Cantillation
18. Come Together: Music and Tourette's Syndrome
19. Keeping Time: Rhythm and Movement
20. Kinetic Melody: Parkinson's Disease and Music Therapy
21. Phantom Fingers: The case of the one-armed pianist
22. Athletes of the small muscles: Musician's Dystonia

IV. Emotion, identity, and music
23. Awake and Asleep: Musical dreams
24. Seduction and Indifference
25. Lamentations: Music, madness, and melancholia
26. The case of Harry S.: Music and emotion
27. Irrepressible: Music and the Temporal Lobes
28. A Hypermusical species: Williams Syndrome
29. Music and Identity: Dementia and Music Therapy

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index



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