Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain

[PhilGE]

This is going on my wish list for Christmas: Oliver Sacks' new book about medical musical oddities. Here are two reviews from the New York Times.

Power to Soothe the Savage Breast and Animate the Hemispheres (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/books/20kaku.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
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Take Five, and Call Me (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?fta=y)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/28/books/gott600.jpg

[Bob Wiegers]

yeah that caught my eye on Amazon too. on my wish list...

[luckylarue]

I've got the Sacks book and Daniel Levitan's "This Is Your Brain On Music" next in line for reading - soon as I finish Robert Fisk's epic on the Middle East, "The Great War For Civilisation".

[Dave Cohen]

Also a very interesting read by Oliver Sacks: the autobiographical "Uncle Tungsten".

[otterly2k]

looking forward to reading this...

also, what an interesting graphic... I wonder how they decided to use the record-player image, considering how dated that now is and how few people still use them...

[El Greco]

I'm reading the last pages of this book. #

The long tenure of Mr. Sacks in neurology has produced some amazing experiences and cumulative knowledge. It shows in this book. #Very interesting life examples of how music is equally part of our thought processes and brains, like another form of speech, language and comprehension. #The phrase "I hear music in my head" shouldn't sound peculiar after reading this book.