WilmU Online Book Club

November 2024  |  I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
12 p.m. ET


Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni are all welcome!

Join the WilmU Book Club for an online discussion of "I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine", by Daniel J. Levitin. Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. (Taken directly from "I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine" by Daniel J. Levitin.)

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and joyful celebration of the human mind, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord explores the critical role music has played in human evolution, illuminating how the story of the human brain is inseparable from the creative enterprise of music that has bound cultures together throughout history. Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviors.

As neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin demonstrates in this mind-expanding follow-up to This Is Your Brain on Music—which revolutionized our understanding of the neuroscience of song—medical researchers are now finding that these same deep connections can be harnessed to create profound benefits for those both young and old. (Taken directly from "I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine" by Daniel J. Levitin.)

 

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