Psychology of Music

<p>What happens when we listen to music? Why are certain forms pleasing and others not? John Davies was both a psychologist and a talented musician and <i>The Psychology of Music</i> originally published in 1978 explores the nature of man’s eternal need for and love of music. Drawing on current research in psychology and social psychology at the time he explores the processes beneath this love affair in an easy and fluent style liberally punctuated with amusing and occasionally startling examples.</p>