Daniel J. Levitin Book Launch | Lancement de livre de Daniel J. Levitin

Join us on September 17th at 5 pm for the Ottawa launch of Daniel J. Levitin’s I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine. Attendees will be able to purchase the book on-site for the author to sign! Reception to follow discussion.

About the Author

Daniel J. Levitin is the New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, Successful Aging, and the international bestseller A Field Guide to Lies. Levitin is James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Neuroscience and Music at McGill University, and Founding Dean of Minerva University in San Francisco. He is also a musician and composer who has worked with artists including Roseanne Cash, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Joni Mitchell, and has been awarded seventeen gold and platinum records. He divides his time between Montreal and California.

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.

About I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Music is perhaps one of humanity’s oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, spur healing, and calm the mind. Despite this history, musical therapy has long been considered the remit of ancient practice and alternative medicine, if not outright quackery and pseudoscience. In the last decade, however, an overwhelming body of scientific evidence has emerged that persuasively argues music can offer profoundly effective treatment for a whole host of ailments, from Alzheimer’s to PTSD, depression, pain, and cognitive injury. It is, in short, one of the most potent and remarkably promising new therapies available today.

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.

Joignez-vous à nous le 17 mai à 17 h, à Ottawa, pour le lancement du livre de Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord : Music as Medicine. Les participants pourront acheter le livre sur place pour que l'auteur le signe! Une réception aura lieu après la présentation.

À propos de l’auteur

Daniel J. Levitin est l’auteur des succès de librairie du New York Times This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind et Successful Aging, ainsi que du succès international A Field Guide to Lies. M. Levitin est professeur émérite James McGill de psychologie, de neurosciences et de musique à l’Université McGill et doyen fondateur de l’Université Minerva à San Francisco. Musicien et compositeur, il a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Roseanne Cash, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan et Joni Mitchell, et a reçu dix-sept disques d’or et de platine. Il partage son temps entre Montréal et la Californie.

Neuroscientifique et auteur du succès du New York Times This Is Your Brain on Music, Daniel J. Levitin révèle comment les liens profonds entre la musique et le cerveau humain peuvent être utilisés à des fins de guérison.

À propos de I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Music is perhaps one of humanity’s oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, spur healing, and calm the mind. Despite this history, musical therapy has long been considered the remit of ancient practice and alternative medicine, if not outright quackery and pseudoscience. In the last decade, however, an overwhelming body of scientific evidence has emerged that persuasively argues music can offer profoundly effective treatment for a whole host of ailments, from Alzheimer’s to PTSD, depression, pain, and cognitive injury. It is, in short, one of the most potent and remarkably promising new therapies available today.

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.