The World in Six Songs
How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Levitin
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By:
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Daniel Levitin
About this listen
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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.
A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the 'soundtrack of civilisation'.
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It touches upon multiple disciplines, which admittedly makes the in depth knowledge and probing quite a challenge. But this in-depth look would be necessary to make a a convincing case of the arguments made here.
It does refer to academic literature, but almost everywhere it's shallow as there surely would be more to create analysis and discussion. Some of the material is anecdotal and the book probably isn't even trying to offer a comprehensive framework, but rather an individual opinion somewhat based on scientific literature.
I think many of the arguments are sensible, but one would need more to defend them and offer an expert opinion. This books is not that and surely during the time of the publishing, it couldn't have been which makes it also obsolete and asking for a sequel based on the new scientific literature.
Interesting listen though, but not what I was hoping for or most likely not what it could have been.
Interesting but old and not in-depth enough to make a convincing case
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