{"id":933,"date":"2009-01-30T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2009-01-30T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:53:55","slug":"book-report-friday-musicophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/book-report-friday-musicophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report Friday: Musicophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400033535?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomness01-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1400033535\">Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=randomness01-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1400033535\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\u00a0is not your typical book from the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings. Sacks moves away from his traditional case studies into talking more in generalities about different neurological phenomena and how they relate to music. As a musician and a nerd, I found it fascinating. As a lover of cohesive literature, I found it slightly difficult to read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sacks has a gift for describing people&#8217;s situations and how their brains&#8217; work. He can write a chapter about someone&#8217;s life and make it really come to life. His work is deeply rooted in science, but he tells a story as well. He sets a scene, draws you in and teaches you a little bit about the various conditions that he diagnoses\/treats\/studies along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Musicophilia, the concepts come first and the stories come later. It&#8217;s not always effective, especially when it starts to read more like a laundry list than like a narrative. But, when Sacks gets into his groove, the writing comes together and the book gets truly fascinating. And, even when things get a bit\u00a0kludgy, it&#8217;s still darn interesting. Did you know that there are people who can taste music? I sure didn&#8217;t. And that perfect pitch can fade over time but tends to stick around when people are musically trained or if they lose other senses.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m going to blindfold our future children and make them play the violin for 12 hours a day)<\/p>\n<p>(Not really)<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, if you like music or you like brains. Or you like music and brains. Because you&#8217;re a zombie musician. Anyways, you should check this book out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks \u00a0is not your typical book from the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,17,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report-friday","category-geeky-girl","category-music","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}