We are what we listen to - Caicedo, Patricia
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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health. Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo reveals: - How the brain works when you listen and make music. - The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health. - The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music. - How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities. -…mehr

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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health. Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo reveals: - How the brain works when you listen and make music. - The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health. - The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music. - How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities. - The importance of music in pain and death. - How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life. We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual health will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, transdisciplinary investigation that contextualizes the music and its effects on historical, scientific, and social levels. It is an essential book for music lovers and everybody seeking to improve their mental and physical health.
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Autorenporträt
Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, a musicologist and a physician. She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject. She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed at important venues of Europe and the Americas in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. She created Mundo Arts, a music publishing house, a record label, and an online store. Caicedo is the host of the podcast Latin American and Iberian Art Song, in which she interviews composers and leading experts from across the world.Patricia has a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina.