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The Music Instinct Brain Shot

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All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all are questions that have, until recently, remained profoundly mysterious. Now in The Music Instinct Brain Shot Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known - and what is still unknown - about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity.



BRAIN SHOT: Byte-sized survey of what is known - and what is still unknown - about how music works and why it is indispensible to humanity
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781407073682
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Erscheinungsdatum02.07.2010
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This is not a new book - indeed so un-new is it that it has recently been republished in a handsome "classics" edition. Classic non-fiction is pretty hard to define - taste and timeliness overtake the factual more quickly than the fictional - but Bloomsbury deserve credit for elevating this decade-and-a-bit-old account of an 1860 murder in rural England.

What makes this book so compelling and timeless is its skilful blending of the story of the murder with an account of why detectives (and by extension detective fiction) so captivated Victorian Britain. Before reading it, I had no idea how new detectives were in the 1860s and how much media and literary attention they garnered in their early existence, with people from across society pitching in to praise their omniscience or to criticise their actions as murder solving became a national parlour game. Excellently written and researched this book will help you understand why Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple are as famous as they are.
This is not a new book - indeed so un-new is it that it has recently been republished in a handsome "classics" edition. Classic non-fiction is pretty hard to define - taste and timeliness overtake the factual more quickly than the fictional - but Bloomsbury deserve credit for elevating this decade-and-a-bit-old account of an 1860 murder in rural England.

What makes this book so compelling and timeless is its skilful blending of the story of the murder with an account of why detectives (and by extension detective fiction) so captivated Victorian Britain. Before reading it, I had no idea how new detectives were in the 1860s and how much media and literary attention they garnered in their early existence, with people from across society pitching in to praise their omniscience or to criticise their actions as murder solving became a national parlour game. Excellently written and researched this book will help you understand why Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple are as famous as they are.
Nachdem ich bereits "Soon may the Wellerman für Gitarre/Ukulele und die Sammlung "Sailor Song" empfohlen habe, kann ich gar nicht anders als diese neue Shantie-Sammlung - von Nathan Evans zusammengestellt und kommentiert - ebenfalls zu empfehlen. Der weltweite Erfolg der Lieder hat wohl alle überrascht. Eine Erklärung mag sein, dass es in Zeiten von Lockdowns und Distanzierung kaum etwas gibt, das die Sehnsucht nach Gemeinsamkeit so auf den Punkt bringt, wie Shanties dies tun. Gesungen wurden sie in der Isolation eines Schiffes auf weiter teilweise lebensfeindlicher Flur bzw. Wasseroberfläche, während Familie und Freunde weit entfernt zurückblieben. Gleichzeitig spiegeln sie die Sehnsucht nach Rausgehen, Reisen, fremde Länder entdecken, neue Menschen kennenlernen, was gerade stark eingeschränkt ist. Diese mit zauberhaften Holzstichen und Zeichnungen gestaltete Ausgabe ist ein wunderschönes Weihnachtsgeschenk für alle, denen wir unbedingt sagen wollen, dass wir sie gerne um uns haben.

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Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.