![]() ![]() Levitin sees songs as efficient systems for preserving tribal histories, transmitting essential how-to information from generation to generation and communicating spiritual feelings and deep emotions. Devoting a chapter to each category-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love-the author speculates about its origins and how it influenced the human spirit over thousands of generations. The auditory art of music became part of our brain’s wiring tens of thousands of years ago, and human nature has been shaped by six broad categories of songs, by which Levitin means music of all kinds. What distinguishes us from all other species, he declares, is not language or use of tools, but the impulse toward artistic expression. So argues research scientist Levitin (Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise/McGill University This Is Your Brain on Music, 2006, etc.), who believes that music and the human brain co-evolved. Music played a key role in making societies and civilizations possible. ![]()
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