Publication Date:September 23, 2008 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan
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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. 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, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.
Music, food for our brainAugust 18, 2010 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 friendJuly 7, 2010 D. Phillips 0 out of 3 found this review helpful
It looked like an interesting book, but I have not read it since it was a gift.
Haven't Received it yetMay 23, 2010 N. Clement(San Francisco) 0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
MusicophiliaMay 10, 2010 Ruth(Central, SC) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 bookApril 11, 2010 PPL(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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