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A Review of Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks, New York, Random House, 2007,2008.
Recently, we lost author Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, but he left us with ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and a film based on his book Awakenings. In Musicophilia he relates the experiences of his patients who have enjoyed unusual musical talents or suffered with odd experiences centered in the "music" area of the brain.
The first section is devoted to the story of people "Haunted By Music." We are struck with amazement at what our neurons can do to us. In section II, Sacks reviews cases of amazing "musicality." Again we are amazed, this time at what our neurons can do. "Memory, Movement, and Music" includes stories that illustrate how our musical memory can serve us when other memory fails. It tells us about therapy, the role of rhythm in our lives. The stories continue to the end with music's role in "emotion and Identity."
Sacks' tells a good story, so it's like being friends with his patients as he relates their odd experiences, their joys, and their
confusions.
Recently, we lost author Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, but he left us with ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and a film based on his book Awakenings. In Musicophilia he relates the experiences of his patients who have enjoyed unusual musical talents or suffered with odd experiences centered in the "music" area of the brain.
The first section is devoted to the story of people "Haunted By Music." We are struck with amazement at what our neurons can do to us. In section II, Sacks reviews cases of amazing "musicality." Again we are amazed, this time at what our neurons can do. "Memory, Movement, and Music" includes stories that illustrate how our musical memory can serve us when other memory fails. It tells us about therapy, the role of rhythm in our lives. The stories continue to the end with music's role in "emotion and Identity."
Sacks' tells a good story, so it's like being friends with his patients as he relates their odd experiences, their joys, and their
confusions.
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