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The Musical Human: A History Of Life On Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book Of The Week'The Musical Human: A History Of Life On Earth A BBC Radio 4 'Book Of The Week' A world leading musicologist tells the extraordinary story of humankinds relationship with music across evolutionary time A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online'Entertaining, informative and philosphical An essential read' All About History'Extraordinary range All the world and more is here' Evening Standard165 million years ago saw the birth
The Musical Human: A History Of Life On Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book Of The Week'
A world-leading musicologist tells the extraordinary story of humankind’s relationship with music across evolutionary time
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66 million years ago came the first melody.40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument.Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet it is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, from global history to our everyday lives, from insects to apes, humans to artificial intelligence.'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin'A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind' Ian Bostridge
'Entertaining, informative and philosophical ... An essential read' - All About History Magazine
'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' - Julian Glover
'An ambitious and total history of music' - Daily Telegraph
'Full of delightful nuggets ... sends the reader back to a world of musical examples time and time again' - Guardian
'Extraordinary ... Ranging from the Geissenklosterle caves to K-Pop, from the lost music of the Aztecs to the role of song in hunter-gatherer societies, and drawing on a vast array of specialisations, from archaeoacoustics to ornithology, Spitzer utilises a breath-taking variety of sources ... The Musical Human will make you think differently about music, about its place in your life and about its importance to human life tout court' - Literary Review
'Bold, compelling and ear-opening' - New Statesman
'Blurring the lines between musical theory, anthropology, biology and history, Spitzer posits that music is one of our most defining achievements, fundamental to the human experience' - Radio Times
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Michael Spitzer - Майкл Спитцер
Publisher:Bloomsbury
Language:English
Publication Date:2022
Number of pages:480 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:129 mm / 5,1'
Height:198 mm / 7,8'
Weight:370 g
ISBN:9781526602787
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