@book {1840,
	title = {Beethoven{\textquoteright}s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {336},
	publisher = {Basic Books},
	organization = {Basic Books},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {<p>Why does the brain create music? In Beethoven{\textquoteright}s Anvil, cognitive scientist and jazz musician William Benzon finds the key to music{\textquoteright}s function in the very complexity of musical experience. Music demands that our symbol-processing capacities, motor skills, and emotional and communicative skills all work in close coordination--not only within our own heads but also with the heads (and bodies) of others. Music is at once deeply personal and highly social, highly disciplined yet open to emotional nuance and interpretation. It{\textquoteright}s precisely this coordination of different mental functions, Benzon argues, that underlies our deep need to create and participate in music. At once daring and scholarly, this remarkable book offers a sweeping vision of a vital, underappreciated force in our minds and our culture.\&nbsp;\&nbsp; Some varieties of musical experience -- Music and coupling -- Fireflies: dynamics and brain states -- Musical consciousness and pleasure -- Blues in the night: emotion in music -- Rhythm methods: patterns of construction -- Bright moments -- The protohuman rhythm band -- Musicking the world -- Music and civilization -- Through jazz and beyond</p>
},
	keywords = {Music.},
	isbn = {0465015433},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/2001037509},
	author = {Benzon, William}
}
