"The World in Six Songs" author Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin, author of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, is at the U of T Bookstore Reading Series today at 4pm.

Levitin's new book explains his theory on the human brain evolved to play and listen to music in six forms — for knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. Levitin outlines how music was able to create a cooperative and social environment conducive for the evolvement of society. Levitin is a professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal.

This is a free event held at the Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, Walter Hall.

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