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  <title><![CDATA[Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination]]></title>
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  <default_description>What is music? How and why does it affect us? What is the nature of musical genius? Author/composer Robert Jourdain explores these and other questions, from the essential nature of sound through composition, performance, and, finally, the nature of ecstasy. His prose is eminently readable, offering a very accessible account of a difficult subject to the general reader as well as to the musical sophisticate. This is a fascinating and intriguing book, written by someone who clearly knows his subject.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1997</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Jourdain]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A better &quot;This is your Brain on Music.&quot; Jourdain speaks to the musician throughout, while shaking hands with neurological evidence and kissing interesting historical factoids. Similar to an arriving cadence he drives the reader forward, always dangling the carrot of more clarity just out o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57532747">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 10:16:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 25 20:34:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay, so it took me a while to read this book, but i finally finished it, hooray!  two reasons: 1. it was a self-task of mine to read this book, even though i knew most of the information presented there. 2. i went on 2 tours with 2 different bands over the 3-week period.<br/><br/>now that i've go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20578222">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 15 10:06:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent primer on music psychology for the layman. Has absolutely nothing to do with the drug ecstacy; would recommend a title alteration.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating, very readable look at the scientific side of music's inexplicable connection to our souls...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 18:31:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't put this in the 'easy reads' pile, but the wealth of information in this book is astounding.  My wife called the writing &quot;scientific-y&quot; which is accurate.  You will learn the physics of sound, what the your brain and ears do with it and the profound difference between noise and ...]]></body>
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    <review id="9550909">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Music people.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was weird. It was way too frilly for a science book. I'm all for imagery, but this was too syrupy or something. The cool facts about music and listening to music were buried under two or three pages of needless contextual fluff. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[COvers everything you want to know about what music is, how it is made, and how the human body percieves it.  This book was a large part of my source material for my college papers on composition.]]></body>
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    <review id="33382987">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this one a long time ago. I think I liked it but lost interest when he went on too long about how our musical taste came from when our ancestors were fish.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually bought this book and have read a few chapters but I would love to finish it. It's a science non-fiction. But very cool.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 17 13:49:24 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[third time i've read it... more to be added later - too bust taking annotations for incorporation into my thesis... ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is a bit mypopic and Euroccentric, but some of his observations are spot on.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told you I was always in the middle of at least 5 books]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely! ]]></body>
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