Jourdain Robert - Music The Brain And Ecstasy How Music Captures Our Imagination - Paperback Art Treatments & Subjects Author(s): Burness Tad

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Ironically it is the reliance upon the distinction between "teachers" and "taught" in the work of these theorists which generates civic passivity and ignorance

Jourdain Robert - Music The Brain And Ecstasy How Music Captures Our Imagination - Paperback Art Treatments & Subjects Author(s): Burness TadBinding: Paperback Description: What 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 tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science psychology music theory paleontology and philosophy Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot and