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The World in Six Songs
How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Book • 2008
In 'The World in Six Songs', Daniel J. Levitin combines science and art to reveal how music has shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.
He identifies six fundamental song functions—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love—that have enabled social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve.
The book draws on anthropology, evolutionary biology, and music cognition to illustrate how these song types function in our brains to preserve emotional and literal history.
He identifies six fundamental song functions—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love—that have enabled social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve.
The book draws on anthropology, evolutionary biology, and music cognition to illustrate how these song types function in our brains to preserve emotional and literal history.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
