Voices How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life |
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| Author:
| Coleman, Nick |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78470-133-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Arrow |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018*** 'A brilliant book about singing... I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. With Voices you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it' Nick Hornby in The Believer What happens when we fall in love with a voice; the siren call of someone singing? The history of post-war popular music...
More Description ***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***
'A brilliant book about singing... I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. With Voices you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it' Nick Hornby in The Believer
What happens when we fall in love with a voice; the siren call of someone singing?
The history of post-war popular music is traditionally told sociologically or in terms of musicological influence and innovation in style. Voices takes a different tack. In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences - as chaotic, random, challenging and unpredictable as life itself.
Voices is the story of what it is to listen and learn. Above all, it is a story of what it means to feel.