Musicophilia
by Oliver Sacks
Music and the brain: a surgeon struck by lightning who became obsessed with piano, musical hallucinations, amusia, the use of music with Parkinson's and dementia patients. Sacks shows music reaching parts of the brain nothing else can.
Read it if…
you want to understand why music affects you so strongly.
Skip it if…
you want a theory of music; it is cases.
Three things you will actually use
- Music survives when language goes.
- Rhythm can move a body that will not move.
- Music is wired deep.
Do this first
Read the chapter on music and dementia.
Our verdict
Music reaches what nothing else can.
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