“Pesic describes Gould’s use of radio, the extravagant voices and silent multiplicity of Cage, and the adventuring in paralleling multiplicity of music and identity through Weber, Proust, Bakhtin and Bordieu. Dave Soldier, Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Sound Arts, Columbia University “Fascinating and opinionated, Peter Pesic’s new book will change your concepts of how our species creates music and perceives it.” Moses Professor of Music, Yale University Pesic’s broadly interdisciplinary grounding is precisely the type of foundation upon which today’s music history should be built.” “A brilliantly original and courageous book. Indeed, Pesic’s purview is almost without precedent in musicology, and concerning polyphony it stands alone.” The neurologist or historian who seeks a fuller understanding of the musical analogies used by scientists from Jules Bernard Luys to Buszáki will find no more capacious guide than this one. “Polyphonic Minds convinced me that thinking about music, and polyphony in particular, can help us to understand what the brain does. Not only philosophy, but also social history plays its part in the complex mix that is this book.” Wandering between the sciences and the arts, he has addressed fascinating questions such as why the sky is (seen as) blue….
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“In a series of distinctive books published by MIT, he has looked at, thought about, and listened to the world.
Paul Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement One senses that Pesic is right, that there is something in the relationship between, on the one hand, music that has several but mutually dependent lines and, on the other hand, minds that are tangles of simultaneous thoughts and perceptions.” Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times “The pianist and physicist Peter Pesic, whose fascinating book Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres traces the role musical polyphony has played in man’s understanding of the mind.”
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