Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Audiobook (Free)

Music can move us to the levels or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to get something, or remind us of our initial date. It can lift us out of despair when nothing else can. It can get us dance to its beat. However the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies even more regions of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling stories of people struggling to adapt to different neurological circumstances possess fundamentally about Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the mind changed just how we think of our own brains, and of the individual experience. In MUSICOPHILIA, he examines the capabilities of music through the individual experiences of individuals, musicians, and people. He explores how catchy tunes can subject matter us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising amount of people acquire non-stop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more regularly, music goes right: Sacks details how music can animate people who have Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke individuals who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose recollections are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in MUSICOPHILIA, Oliver Sacks tells us so why.