基本信息出版社：Plume
页码：368 页
出版日期：2009年07月
ISBN：0452295483
International Standard Book Number：0452295483
条形码：9780452295483
EAN：9780452295483
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music's role in the evolution of human culture-and "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.

Dr. Levitin 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.
作者简介 Daniel J. Levitin, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist This Is Your Brain on Music, is the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University. Before becoming a research scientist and author, he was a record producer and a professional musician.
编辑推荐 "A must-read. . .A literary, poetic, scientific, and musical treat."
-Seattle Times

"An exemplary mix of scientist and artist, student and teacher, performer and listener."
-Library Journal, starred review

"A fantastic ride."
-New Scientist

"Leading researchers in music cognition are already singing its praises."
-Evolutionary Psychology