The World in Six Songs

《The World in Six Songs》是Plume Books出版社2009年7月28日出版的圖書，作者Daniel J. Levitin

基本介紹

• 中文名：The World in Six Songs
• 別名：六首歌里的世界: 音樂細胞如何創造人性
• 作者：Daniel J. Levitin
• 類別：Arts & Photography（藝術與攝影）
• 原作品：The World in Six Songs
• 出版社：Plume Books
• 出版時間：2009年07月28日
• 頁數：368 頁
• 定價：126.00
• 裝幀：平裝
• ISBN：9780452295483

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The author of the "New York Times" bestseller and "Los Angeles Times" Book Award Finalist "This Is Your Brain on Music" tunes into six evolutionary musical forms that have brought about the evolution of human culture.

內容簡介

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.

中文簡介

但以理Levitin暢銷書《令人驚奇的處子秀,這是你的大腦在音樂、羨慕、愉悅的讀者理解如何改變了我們的音樂,讓在我們頭上,留在那裡。現在在他的第二個紐約時報》上的暢銷書,他的天才,結合科學與藝術揭示人類音樂的形狀,跨越文化和歷史悠久。

博士Levitin識別6個基本功能或types-friendship歌、快樂、舒適、宗教、知識和love-then說明各以其獨特的方式使人體所需的社會關係的文化與社會進化。他表明,事實上,這些“六歌曲“工作在我們的腦子裡保存我們的生活和情感的歷史的物種。

結合尖端的科學研究Levitin博士從他的音樂認知在加拿大馬吉爾大學的實驗室工作,以一個數組的形式返回相關領域;而他自己的經驗有時滑稽音樂生意;和富有啟發性的採訪音樂家如一陣刺痛,大衛伯,以及導體、人類學家和演化生物學家。世界六歌曲,最終,這場革命的在我們理解人性的evolved-right更為重要。

作者簡介

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.

媒體評論

"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