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A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) (Hardcover)
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A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) (Hardcover)
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'An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art
form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)'
Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together
memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical
music as the most rebellious genre of all. Paul Morley had stopped
being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating
into the sounds of artists he loved when, as an emerging music
journalist in the 70s, he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in
to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote
about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and
wondrous - and found it in classical music. A soaring polemic, a
grumpy reflection on modern rock, and a fan's love note, A Sound
Mind rejects the idea that classical music is establishment; old; a
drag. Instead, the book reveals this genre to be the most exciting
and varied in music. A Sound Mind is a multi-layered memoir of
Morley's shifting musical tastes, but it is also a compelling
history of classical music that reveals the genre's rich and often
deviant past - and, hopefully, future. Like a conductor, Morley
weaves together timelines and timeframes in an orchestral narrative
that declares the transformative and resilient power of classical
music from Bach to Shostakovich, Brahms to Birtwistle, Mozart to
Cage, travelling from eighteenth century salons to the modern age
of Spotify.
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