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We are what we listen to: The impact of Music on Individual and Social Health
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health.
Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo
- How the brain works when you listen and make music.
- The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health.
- The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music.
- How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities.
- The importance of music in pain and death.
- How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life.
We are what we listen the impact of music on individual health will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, transdisciplinary investigation that contextualizes the music and its effects on historical, scientific, and social levels. It is an essential book for music lovers and everybody seeking to improve their mental and physical health.
Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo
- How the brain works when you listen and make music.
- The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health.
- The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music.
- How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities.
- The importance of music in pain and death.
- How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life.
We are what we listen the impact of music on individual health will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, transdisciplinary investigation that contextualizes the music and its effects on historical, scientific, and social levels. It is an essential book for music lovers and everybody seeking to improve their mental and physical health.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2021
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January 12, 2023
It is a fantastic book; it covers all aspects of music and health, and it is easy to read and inspiring. It made me want to start playing music again.
February 21, 2022
I picked up this book mostly out of curiosity -what particularly caught my eye in the description was the point: "How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life."
We do tend to underestimate the power of music (well I did), and I really needed a reminder.
She managed to pull out of me some deep feelings with regard to being a listener, and amongst the pages, I found a great deal of inspiration to get back to music.
Well worth reading.
We do tend to underestimate the power of music (well I did), and I really needed a reminder.
She managed to pull out of me some deep feelings with regard to being a listener, and amongst the pages, I found a great deal of inspiration to get back to music.
Well worth reading.
February 21, 2022
A lovely read, and a fascinating subject to read about.
It got me thinking about the effect that music has had on me for all these years of playing, and all of those thousands of people who showed up to orchestra concerts and operas because music makes them feel better!
A good book for anyone who likes music. Well I suppose that's everyone!
It got me thinking about the effect that music has had on me for all these years of playing, and all of those thousands of people who showed up to orchestra concerts and operas because music makes them feel better!
A good book for anyone who likes music. Well I suppose that's everyone!
February 23, 2022
Music (the art of combining silences and sounds) is also a physical phenomenon that affects physical bodies, like ours, for example. How does this phenomenon impact our individual and social health? This is what the doctor, musicologist and renowned soprano Patricia Caicedo explains to us in this book.
A fascinating and profound book, written in a language and structure accessible to all types of readers, where it describes the historical relationship between music and medicine, explains the physiological processes that make it possible to hear and understand music, the emotional nature of music and its psychological aspect, the way in which we understand music and its meanings, both individually and collectively; how it builds us a personal and cultural identity, and how it acts as an elixir against pain, among other topics.
Rarely do we have the opportunity to read a book that masterfully brings together the arts and sciences to explain what it is and how the soundtrack of our own lives shapes us. Highly recommended!
A fascinating and profound book, written in a language and structure accessible to all types of readers, where it describes the historical relationship between music and medicine, explains the physiological processes that make it possible to hear and understand music, the emotional nature of music and its psychological aspect, the way in which we understand music and its meanings, both individually and collectively; how it builds us a personal and cultural identity, and how it acts as an elixir against pain, among other topics.
Rarely do we have the opportunity to read a book that masterfully brings together the arts and sciences to explain what it is and how the soundtrack of our own lives shapes us. Highly recommended!
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