Jeg Elsker Dig The Secret Life of Ancient Words - Couverture souple

Hawkesworth, M Maurice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3692440618 ISBN 13 : 9783692440613

Editeur : Wedgwood Press, 2025

Synopsis

Jeg Elsker Dig: The Secret Life of Ancient Words is both a playful history of language and a personal testimony about survival, memory, and music.

Words are fossils. Not fossils buried in stone, but fossils hidden in sound — bread, love, law, freedom. They outlive empires, carried daily in our mouths. Author M. Maurice Hawkesworth uncovers these fossils across languages and cultures, weaving them with stories from his own life in the music industry.

You’ll travel from the Viking riddle of the chicken and the egg to the oldest words for breath and fire, from the fossils of family cries to the survival of proverbs. Alongside these playful explorations lies a serious testimony: how words — even song lyrics — can be stolen. In a Stockholm basement in 1993, Hawkesworth added a resolution line to a song that became a global hit: “The Sign” by Ace of Base. His words survived, but his name was erased.

This book shows that whether whispered by firelight or sung on MTV, words refuse to die. They carry memory, survival, and sometimes even injustice — but they endure.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Etymology and word origins

• Cultural history and folklore

• Memoirs of music, survival, and creativity

• Nonfiction that blends scholarship and storytelling

Once you’ve read it, you’ll never hear an ordinary word — or song — the same way again.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wedgwood Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3692440618
• ISBN 13: 9783692440613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 185
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg