Cover art for Musicophilia
Published
Picador, September 2011
ISBN
9780330523592
Format
Softcover, 448 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 13.1cm × 2.9cm

Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain by

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Arousing, inspiring, comforting - music is capable of stimulating both passion and compassion, speaking to our very core and taking us to the heights or depths of emotion. In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explores this phenomenon through various case studies, including a surgeon who is struck by lightning and subsequently becomes obsessed with Chopin.

Describing how music can animate people with Parkinson's Disease, can give words to stroke patients, or calm those disorientated by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia, Sacks uses the example of music, and stories of individual experience, to illuminate the universal human condition.

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