Music - Psychological aspects
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
$20.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music–its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enj
- Author: Levitin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288525
- Language: English
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The Science of Song: How and Why We Make Music
$17.99 Read moreWhat is music? How is it made? And what’s changed — and what hasn’t — about how we listen to it? Here’s all the best stuff about the science and history behind our connection to music.
Though most
- Author: Cross, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1771387874
- Language: English
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$27.95 Read more“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
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- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1771645547
- Language: English
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Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
$19.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands
- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250117992
- Language: English
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The Power of Music: God’s Call to Change the World One Song at a Time
$16.99 Add to cartMusic can either Connect You to God or Drive You to the Devil. God created the human race to enjoy music and to make music, and through music the world has been dramatically changed–for good and for … [more below]
- Author: Brown, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1629995959
- Language: English
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Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
$36.00 Add to cart“This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections.” –… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Ren?e
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 059365319X
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMusic has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190640154
- Language: English
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – 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 affe… [more below]
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1400033535
- Language: English
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$18.95 Add to cart“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
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- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401112
- Language: English
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
$30.00 Add to cart“I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.”
There are countless books on music with much anal- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335000623
- Language: English
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This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music
$17.95 Add to cartThis Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a
- Author: Rogers, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065966
- Language: English
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes a distant oboe’s wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tr
- Author: Jourdain, R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 038078209X
- Language: English
