Product Description
by Abel James (Author)
Music is everywhere; it pumps through earbuds, elevators, commercials, arenas, and it's even beamed out to space. But - despite its rampant abundance in human experience, history, and culture - music has no clear adaptive function. This begs the question: What are the origins of music, and why does it play such an enormous role in our lives? Did music arise from sexual selection, from the faculty of speech, as a group-oriented communication device, or is it merely a fortuitous side effect of various perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that serve other functions? In this multidisciplinary review of academic literature, Abel James incorporates research in neuroscience, linguistics, perception and challenges a wide range of eminent thinkers to uncover the origins of music and explore its profound effects on the human brain. "The Musical Brain is a technical review of extraordinary breadth. There are books that you read and there are books that you study. The Musical Brain falls into the latter category."- Tony Federico
Author Biography
A modern-day Renaissance man, Abel James is a #1 bestselling author, award-winning talk s how host, keynote speaker, professional musician, and entrepreneur. Abel's work has been featured in WIRED Magazine, Paleo Living, and hundreds of publications in business, technology, psychology, and health. Abel's Fat-Burning Man Show hit #1 in Health on iTunes in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and other countries across the world with over a million listens in its first year. As a professional musician and singer-songwriter, Abel James has toured North America and Europe as the bandleader of several award-winning musical groups. Abel has advised Fortune 500 and federal government clients including Microsoft, Oracle, State Street Global Advisors, Lockheed Martin, the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the Library of Congress. Hailing from the frosty backwoods of New Hampshire, Abel James lives with his rambunctious yellow lab, Bailey, in Austin, Texas.
