This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

The author explores the connection between music - playing it, composing it, how we listen to it, what we like about it - and the human brain. Entering into dialogue with prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin claims that it is a fundamental property of our species. For most of human history around the world, making and playing music was as natural as breathing and walking, and everyone was involved.