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The World in Six Songs audiobook
- By: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrator: Daniel J. Levitin
- Category: History & Criticism, Music
- Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The World in Six Songs Audiobook Summary
The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times).
Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.
Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.
Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.
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The World in Six Songs Full Details
| Narrator | Daniel J. Levitin |
| Length | 7 hours 33 minutes |
| Author | Daniel J. Levitin |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593411209 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The World in Six Songs is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: music book, music gifts, science gift, music, musicians, science, neuroscience, musicology, music theory, music cognition, songs, brain, brain science, neurology, human evolution, evolution, evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, culture, biology, human nature, recording, record, reference, resource, guide, acoustics, sounds, interviews, Sting, David Byrne, music appreciation, music history, books about music, books for musicians, world music, songwriting, science books for adults, gifts for songwriters, Music, History & Criticism, Science, Acoustics & Sound, Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience The BISAC Subject Code is History & Criticism, Music
Additional info
The publisher of the The World in Six Songs is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593411209.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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