Resultados para "On Social Music" en Salud y bienestar

To hear Ethiopian and Swedish chef, TV personality, and restauranteur Marcus Samuelsson cook with special guests at the Red Rooster restaurant is to make an audio pilgrimage to Harlem. Listeners will get to know the iconic neighborhood, Marcus’ home, through its food, its history, and - most importantly - its people.

Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations - some spanning the course of years - with 10 fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part.

In 1997, Daniel Trush, a bright, active, outgoing twelve-year-old, collapsed on the basketball court and fell into a deep coma. Rushed to the hospital, he was found to have five previously undetected aneurysms in his brain. One had burst, causing a massive cerebral hemorrhage. While Daniel remained comatose, the uncontrolled pressure inside his skull caused him to suffer multiple strokes.

Presente in tutte le culture umane da migliaia di anni, la musica ha poteri straordinari. Ma che cosa accade al nostro cervello quando facciamo musica? Di certo essa è in grado di scolpirlo nelle sue strutture e funzioni, influenzando la percezione del linguaggio, l'attenzione e la memoria. Tuffandoci nel condotto uditivo, trasformandoci in segnali elettrici capaci di raggiungere la corteccia, cavalcando le creste delle onde cerebrali, proveremo a svelare il mistero di questa forma così sofisticata di comunicazione, porta d'ingresso privilegiata per lo studio della mente.