Wired for music a search for health and joy through the science of sound
"In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy. Music isn't just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a...
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Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London :
Greystone Books,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude
- Introduction
- Strings attached : a young cellist learns the hard way
- The music instinct : what makes us musical?
- Groove, interrupted : how our innate musicality gets rusty
- Mood music : soothing sadness, depression, anxiety, and stress
- A musician's brain : does playing an instrument make us smarter, more creative?
- More than meets the ear : the perks of listening, from pump tunes to sleep songs
- Bad vibrations : if music heals, can it harm?
- All together now : how music brings us closer
- The beat goes on : music for healthy aging
- Fumbling towards ecstasy : spiritual growth through rhythm and song
- Coda.
