Books About Musicians & Music

Updated June 13, 2023
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Estacada Library
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This is your brain on music : the science of a human obsession
Levitin, Daniel J.
Paper Book
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology....
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain
Sacks, Oliver W.
Paper Book
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of...

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