"The Library's [Library of Congress] Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations, and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation."
Here's a link to this particular lecture series which you can download for free as mp3 files.
This is part of the iTunes U section of the iTunes story (which can be accessed through iTunes).
"iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 200,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there's no end to what or where you can learn." Learn more about iTunes U
Looks awesome! I'm going to check it out. It's amazing the kind of accessible knowledge that is out there for everyone to learn. We should all take advantage of this, and encourage our peers, families, people we meet on the subway, etc. to look at these things. The NPR podcasts are also a wellspring of knowledge.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post, Allison. I have been looking for ways to use iTunes U more...
ReplyDeleteI probably listen to more podcasts than music on my iPod and I still love the idea that I can walk around my neighborhood or house and learn about research on music and the brain.
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