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A carregar... Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition (original 2007; edição 2008)por Oliver Sacks (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Com a mesma marca de compaixão e erudição de O Homem Que Confundiu a Mulher com um Chapéu, Oliver Sacks explora o lugar que a música ocupa no cérebro e como é que ela afecta a condição humana. Em Musicofilia, o autor apresenta uma variedade daquilo que designa por «desalinhamentos musicais». Entre eles: um homem atingido por um relâmpago que subitamente deseja ser pianista aos quarenta e dois anos; um grupo de crianças com síndrome de Williams, que desde a nascença são hiper-musicais; pessoas com «amusia», para quem uma sinfonia soa a ruído de panelas; e um homem cuja memória dura apenas sete segundos excepto quando se trata de música. ( )
The gentle doctor turns his pen to another set of mental anomalies that can be viewed as either affliction or gift. If we could prescribe what our physicians would be like, a good number of us would probably choose somebody like Sacks (Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, 2001, etc.). Learned, endlessly inquisitive and seemingly possessed of a bottomless store of human compassion, the neurologist’s authorial personality both reassures and arouses curiosity. Here, Sacks tackles the whole spectrum of the human body’s experience of music by studying it from the aesthetic as well as medical viewpoint. Fantastical case studies include a young boy assaulted by musical hallucinations who would shout “Take it out of my head! Take it away!” when music only he could hear became unbearably loud. Less frightening are stories about people like Martin, a severely disabled man who committed some 2,000 operas to memory, or ruminations on the linkage between perfect pitch and language: Young children learning music are vastly more likely to have perfect pitch if they speak Mandarin than almost any other language. .. Pertence à Série da EditoraOrígens (136) Está contido emTem um guia de estudo para estudantes
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and Oliver Sacks tells us why.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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