# This Is What It Sounds Like

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- Book: [This Is What It Sounds Like](https://www.bookquiver.com/dr-susan-rogers/this-is-what-it-sounds-like) ([This Is What It Sounds Like.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dr-susan-rogers/this-is-what-it-sounds-like.md))
- Authors: [Dr. Susan Rogers](https://www.bookquiver.com/dr-susan-rogers), [Ogi Ogas](https://www.bookquiver.com/ogi-ogas)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 35 min
- Narrated by: Dr. Susan Rogers
- ISBN: 978-15-2919-488-3
- Published: 2022-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 35 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Despite being unable to play an instrument, Susan Rogers became an extraordinarily successful record producer - and certainly one of the most successful women record producers in history - because of her ability to listen . (She was an engineer on Prince's " When Doves Cry", which inspired the title of the book.) This is What It Sounds Like distils a lifetime's expertise as a producer and an award-winning professor with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, to present a new theory of listening for everyday music fans. Each person has a unique identity as a listener, she explains, determined by seven influential dimensions of musical listening: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm and timbre. In helping readers understand and embrace their personal musical identity, Rogers explores the different ways music appeals to our mind and body, how falling in love with a song is a lot like falling in love with a person, and what your preferred music reveals about what you need to feel whole. Told in a lively, empathetic style, with fascinating stories of encounters with musicians from Prince to Miles Davis to David Byrne, This is What it Sounds Like will change your musical life. © Dr. Susan Rogers 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022