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Marcus’s ‘Guitar Zero’ asks: How do we get to be musical?
Gary Marcus’s personal quest to learn the guitar is the hook in “Guitar Zero,’’ but the book is a much broader inquiry into the nature of musicality and the ways we acquire it. The author, an NYU professor of psychology, is just the guy for the job. An expert in the fields of language, evolution, and cognitive development and, by his own admission, devoid of musical talent, Marcus is researcher and guinea pig rolled into one.

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