false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255842244m/2626281.jpg 1297985 16 What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us&#8211;we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions.<br><br>In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us&#8211;a power that sometimes we control and at other times don&#8217;t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer.<br>This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music. 2304379 book 16 10 2007 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain total:2131|5:419|4:804|3:706|2:201|1:31| 2131 7744 5241 602 4 9 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 08:53:15 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 07:09:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 21:30:28 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 13:39:11 -0700 2008 Musicophilia covers a wide range of tremendously interesting instances of musics odd effects on the mind, however it's anecdotal nature is both its greatest strength and greatest weakness. Because the stories fly by quickly it is easy to tear through a number of them and find your self sa...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sun Jun 08 12:48:01 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 12:41:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 20:23:26 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 20:40:11 -0800 2008 The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. I still completely amazed, and a little bit disturbed, when I think back to his account of the woman who lost her sense of proprioception - the internal body sense that lets you know y...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Feb 26 07:15:36 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 18:38:58 -0800 2008
I love mr. sacks' delightful anecdotal storytelling and his intellect that makes fresh and accessible the study of the brain. It *almost* makes the issues dealt ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:41:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 20:39:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 16:35:39 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 28 09:46:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 10:30:28 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 04:53:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 20 07:58:52 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 17 07:22:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 12:13:33 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 07:06:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:09:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:11:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 21 11:25:35 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 28 14:02:32 -0800 2009
The message here is that music is not some frivolous side effect of our neurology...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 23:06:59 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 23 14:34:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 06 05:55:55 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 19 04:30:26 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 06 05:55:31 -0800 2008
Now finished. I love Sacks. I always learn something. His 'stories'...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 11:57:52 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 12:06:51 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 27 13:06:31 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 21:50:30 -0800 2009 3 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 12:38:46 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 23:25:49 -0700 2008 musicophilia. very quickly, and much to my chagrin, i found myself wearied by repetitive prose and dull analysis. while most of the cases sacks describes are indeed fascinating and re...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Feb 06 15:59:07 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 03:35:42 -0700 2009
What I'd really like to know is why, ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:44:46 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 09:19:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:21:43 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:22:27 -0800 2008
"Musicophilia" is a bunch of case studies about how ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2626281