The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives - Couverture souple

Rogers, Jude

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474622933 ISBN 13 : 9781474622936

Editeur : White Rabbit, 2022

Synopsis

''Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It''s a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating''
Ian Rankin

''Moving and absorbing, The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir, analysis, anecdote and personal chronicle into a mosaic that evokes what music means to the individual and the human tribe. A candid, beautiful read''
Stuart Maconie

The Sound of Being Human explores why music plays such a deep-rooted role in our lives from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is Jude''s own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father; concoct her own sense of self; sky-rocket her relationships, both real and imagined, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood, and look to the future.

Shaped around twelve songs, ranging from ABBA''s ''Super Trouper'' to Neneh Cherry''s ''Buffalo Stance'', Kraftwerk''s ''Radioactivity'' to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas'' ''Heat Wave'', the book combines memoir and historical, scientific and cultural enquiry to show how music can shape different versions of ourselves; how we rely upon music for comfort, for epiphanies, and for sexual and physical connection; how we grow with songs, and songs grow inside us. It is about music''s power to help us tell our own stories, whatever they are, and make them sing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Rabbit
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474622933
• ISBN 13: 9781474622936
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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