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Bad singer : the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music / Tim Falconer.

by Falconer, Tim, 1958-

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House of Anansi Press, 2016.

Music -- Psychological aspects.

Music -- Physiological aspects.

Musical perception.

Auditory perception.

Musical ability.

9781770894457 (hc.)

325 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tim Falconer, a self-confessed "bad singer," is one of only 2.5 percent of the population that has been afflicted with amusia, ie: he is scientifically tone-deaf. His quest to understand the brain science behind tone-deafness and to search for ways to retrain the adult brain. He is tested by numerous scientists who are as fascinated with him as he is with them. He also investigates why we love music and deconstructs what we are really hearing when we listen to it. Throughout this journey of scientific and psychological discovery, he puts theory to practice by taking voice and breathing lessons with a voice coach in order to achieve his personal goal: a public display of his singing abilities. Tim Falconer is a journalist and the author of Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile and That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia, and End-of-Life Care. His article about amusia in the Spring 2012 issue of Maisonneuve was followed by a radio documentary "The Ballad of Tin Ears" on the same subject which originally aired on CBC Radio in May 2014, and can be listened to in Canada on the CBC Radio Ideas website (cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-ballad-of-tin-ears-1.2913907). Tim Falconer teaches magazine journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto and Creative Nonfiction at the University of King's College in Halifax.

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