Howie Klein: The World In Six Songs, Dan Levitin's New Book

I am not a scientist, and I didn't especially like science in school. Something about the Krebs cycle and the free electrons in isotopes (whatever they were) left me cold. I do read a lot of non-fiction, mostly political books, as part of my new "day job" of helping to raise money and consciousness for progressives running for office. But in my former life I ran a record company and I consider myself to have had a lifelong obsession with music and art. I first met Dan Levitin in 1981 when he was playing in The Mortals, a San Francisco punk band that had one or two songs I liked. I introduced him to some friends of mine who were in bands and he produced them back in the 80s. In the 90s he went to college and got a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Over the years, he's invited me to lecture his classes at Stanford and McGill. When his first book This Is Your Brain on Music , came out, I read it first because of the cleverness of the title's play on the assinine Nancy Reagan-era "This is your brain on ... (link)