This is Your Brain on Music

From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.

Fluent and readable... [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are, he says, hard-wired for music.
Observer

'Consistently interesting... Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development '- Literary Review

'Endlessly stimulating' - Oliver Sacks

'Music seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know... Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' - Sting

'You'll never hear music in the same way again' - Classic FM magazine