Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
In chapters examining depressives and musical dreamers, this book succeeds not only in articulating the musical experience but in locating it in the human brain. It shows that music is not simply about sound, but also movement, visualization, and silence. It follows the experiences of patients drawn to or divorced from music.
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330418379 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330418378 |
| Title | Musicophilia |
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2007-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009 |
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