Musicophilia
Subtitle: Tales of Music and the Brain
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
ISBN-13: 9780307267917
Copyright date: 2007
Description: With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part One: Haunted by Music; title: 1. A Bolt from the Blue: Sudden Musicophilia				1; title: 2. A Strangely Familiar Feeling: Musical Seizures			18; title: 3. Fear of Music: Musicogenic Epilepsy					24; title: 4. Music on the Brain: Imagery and Imagination			34; title: 5. Brain Worms, Sticky Music and Catchy Tunes			48; title: 6. Musical Hallucinations							60; title: Part Two: A Range of Musicality; title: 7. Sense and Sensibility: A Range of Musicality 			118; title: 8. Things Fall Apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia 			126; title: 9. Papa Blows his Nose in G: Absolute Pitch				157; title: 10. Pitch Imperfect: Cochlear Amusia					173; title: 11. In Living Stereo: Why We Have Two Ears				189; title: 12. Two Thousand Operas: Musical Savants 				197; title: 13. An Auditory World: Musicality and Blindness			208; title: 14. The Key of Clear Green: Synesthesia and Music			215; title: Part Three: Memory, Movement, and Music; title: 15. In the Moment: Music and Amnesia					244; title: 16. Speech and Song: Music Therapy and Aphasia			282; title: 17. Accidental Davening: Dyskinesia and Cantillation		293; title: 18. Touch Heaven: Music and Tourette's Syndrome 			295; title: 19. Keeping Time: Rhythm and Movement 				304; title: 20. Kinetic Melody: Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease 	320; title: 21. Phantom Fingers: The Case of the One-Armed Pianist		337; title: 22. Athletes of the Small Muscles: Musician's Dystonia		341; title: Part Four: Emotion, Identity, and Music; title: 23. Awake and Asleep: Musical Dreams					359; title: 24. Indifference to Music							368; title: 25. Lamentations: Music and Depression 				383; title: 26. The Case of Harry S.: Music and Emotion				390; title: 27. Irrepressible: Music and the Temporal Lobes			395; title: 28. A Hypermusical Species: Williams Syndrome			410; title: 29. Music and Identity: Music Therapy and Dementia		435; title: Bibliography									455; title: Index; title: 486