This Is What It Sounds Like: Why We Fall in Love with Music
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Dr. Susan Rogers
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Language
- english
- Release date
- October 6, 2022
- ISBN
- 9781847926555
- GTIN
- 9781847926555
- Weight, g
- 750
About
Despite being unable to play an instrument, Susan Rogers became an extraordinarily successful record producer — and certainly one of the most successful women record producers in history — because of her ability to listen. (She was an engineer on Prince's "When Doves Cry", which inspired the title of the book.)
This is What It Sounds Like distils a lifetime's expertise as a producer and an award-winning professor with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, to present a new theory of listening for everyday music fans. Each person has a unique identity as a listener, she explains, determined by seven influential dimensions of musical listening: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm and timbre.
In helping readers understand and embrace their personal musical identity, Rogers explores the different ways music appeals to our mind and body, how falling in love with a song is a lot like falling in love with a person, and what your preferred music reveals about what you need to feel whole. Told in a lively, empathetic style, with fascinating stories of encounters with musicians from Prince to Miles Davis to David Byrne, This is What it Sounds Like will change your musical life.