World in six songs: how the musical brain created human nature

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by Daniel J Levitin.
New York : Plume,  ©2008.

Explores how the evolution of our brains made music, art, science, and society possible. He uncovers six fundamental ways that songs communicate emotion and ideas–songs of friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge and love–and so have built human nature.

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