I've just been sent a flier (or is it flyer? I never know) for a book by Daniel Levitin: This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession. It is an International Best Seller apparently but I hadn't heard of it before.
Dreadful title which has more or less warned me off it already. As have some of the OTT clams made for it. Does anyone here know it? [Aha, I see Bryn has mentoned the name Levitin up above.] Worth reading? Any pointers?
Sorry George, so far I have only dipped into it, but such dipping suggests I should put some time aside to read it soon. His credentials look reasonable; ex-sesion musician, now runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Perception and Expertise, and hold the Chair in Psychology there. For what it's worth, Sacks endorses the book entusiastically, as does David Byrne.
