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On Celestial Music : And Other Adventures in Listening by Rick Moody (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-10031610521X
ISBN-139780316105217
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038258027
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Celestial Music : and Other Adventures in Listening
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicHistory & Criticism, Reference, Lyrics
GenreMusic
AuthorRick Moody
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-030556
Reviews"[Moody's] energy and sheer inventiveness make The Four Fingers of Death an original and exhilarating read."-- Jane Ciabattari, NPR.com, The book is entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief., "The book is entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief."-- The New Yorker, Comic, grim, tender and masterful....Highlight[s] Moody's gift for being as thoughtful as he is entertaining., "Moody's powers of invention, his ease in his own prose, his ability to develop interesting characters-in short, his enormous gifts as a writer-are on full display here."-- Clancy Martin, New York Times Book Review, "Comic, grim, tender and masterful....Highlight[s] Moody's gift for being as thoughtful as he is entertaining."-- Bloomberg, [Moody's] energy and sheer inventiveness make The Four Fingers of Death an original and exhilarating read., Moody's powers of invention, his ease in his own prose, his ability to develop interesting characters-in short, his enormous gifts as a writer-are on full display here.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal780.9
SynopsisRick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial Music," which was included in Best American Essays , 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, "Try a Little Tenderness;" moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, "the music of the spheres." Contemporary groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story "Boys." Always both incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done -- and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know., Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat . "On Celestial Music," which was included in Best American Essays , 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, "Try a Little Tenderness"; moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, "the music of the spheres." Contemporary groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story "Boys." Always both incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done--and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know.
LC Classification NumberML160.M693 2012
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