Beethoven's Anvil : Music in Mind and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780198605577 / Angielski

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Opis

Why does the brain create music? In this text, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music's function in the very complexity of musical experience. Music demands that our symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, emotional and communicative skills all work in close co-odination - not only within our own heads but with the heads (and bodies) of others. Music is at once deeply personal and highly social, highly disciplined and open to emotional nuance and interpretation. It's precisely this co-odination of different mental functions, Benzon argues, that underlies our deep need to create and participate in music. Music synchronizes the brain and has had a profound, and little-appreciated, influence on the shape of the mind and human cultures.

Recenzje

intriguing [...] Benzon has a pleasing range of musical reference

O autorze

William L. Benzon, a cognitive scientist, is Senior Scientist with Metalogics Incorporated and an associate editor of The Journal of Social and Evolutionary System. He is also co-founder of the musical ensemble AfroEurasian Connection. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.