前著”This is Your Brain on Music”が全米ベストセラーになった著者の続刊。著者であるダニエル・レヴィティンは、音楽プロデューサーで、現在はカナダ・マギル大学にて、音楽の知覚認知分野の権威として活躍。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Levitin tells the story of the co-evolution of music and of the human brain, how each one influenced the development of the other over tens of thousands of years. He shows how six specific forms of music played a pivotal role in creating human culture and society as we know it.