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A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) (Paperback)
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A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) (Paperback)
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'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - 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. 'His passion for centuries of music - both celebrated
and obscure - is infectious' - Irish Independent
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