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Sacks Oliver: Musicophilia. Tales of Music and the Brain (in lingua inglese)
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Also by Oliver Sacks

Migraine
Awakenings
A Leg to Stand On
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Seeing Voices
An Anthropologist on Mars
The Island of the Colorblind
Uncle Tungsten
Oaxaca Journal


Musicophilia


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...life. Yet it has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks
images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has no power of representation.
It has no necessary relation to the world.

There are rare humans who, like the Overlords, may lack the
neural apparatus for appreciating tones or melodies. But for virtually
all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out

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or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.
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