Here are some of the best books on how making music affects us. Some of these are well worth a read in themselves. I'll be drawing on them as sources for some of these posts. Often books like these don't give great references to the detailed science, but they're a good place to start.
I've also listed some books on general aspects of how the brain works, which are important references and often have useful snippets on music.
(Note: Links are to bookshop.org rather than to certain other hyperscale online booksellers. If you do choose to buy one of these, bookshop.org allows you to nominate a local bookshop to benefit from the sale. The world needs local bookshops.)
Books on how music affects us
- This is your brain on music, Daniel Levitin, Penguin, 2019.
- Music Advantage: How learning music helps your child's brain and wellbeing, Dr Anita Collins, Allen& Unwin, September 2021.
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr Oliver Sacks, Pan Macmillan, 2018.
- The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It, Philip Ball, Vintage Publishing, 2018.
Books on how the brain works
- How the mind works, Steve Pinker, Penguin, 1997.
- The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults, Frances Jensen, Harper Collins, 2015.
- Welcome to your child's brain, Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang, One World, 2011.
- The river of consciousness, Dr. Oliver Sacks, Picador, 2017.
- Mechanics of the mind, Colin Blakemore, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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