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• Title:Why you like it : the science and culture of musical taste / Nolan Gasser.
  
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• Variant Title:Science and culture of musical taste
  
• Author/Creator:Gasser, Nolan, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Flatiron Books, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: MT146 .G35 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Music appreciation.
  Popular music genres.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xi, 706 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"From the chief architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love" -- From book jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [661]-694) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781250057198 hardcover
  1250057191 hardcover
  9781250057204 electronic book
  
• Contents:Introduction: in the ear of the beholder. The rise and rebirth of the savage beast
  A gift of the gods. Under the musical hood: an orientation ; Melody: the face of music ; Interlude A: the evolution of musical taste: music and anthropology
  Bar bands in Andromeda. Harmony: the internal body of music ; Rhythm: the movement of music ; Interlude B: it's the overtones, stupide: music, math, and physics
  Unity and heterogeneity. Form: the shape of music ; Sound: the personality of music ; Interlude C: the singing cerebrum: music and the brain
  Musical metaphors. The musical genotype ; The pop genotype ; Interlude D: at the cellular level: music and cell biology
  Parlez-vous gamelan?. The rock genotype ; The jazz genotype ; Interlude E: listening with an accent: culture and musical taste
  Questioning the omnivore. The hip hop genotype ; The electronica (EDM) genotype ; Interlude F: staking your claim: intraculture and musical taste
  Who are you, anyway?. The world music genotype ; The classical genotype ; Interlude G: mind over music: psychology and musical taste
  Your hit parade. The what and why of musical taste ; Epilogue: living with music.