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The World in Six Songs

By Daniel Levitin

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The World in Six Songs

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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human. A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the ' soundtrack of civilisation' .
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2019-07-04
Publication Date:
2019-07-04
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241987814
ISBN13:
9780241987810
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
268 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
38 cm

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