Ben Ratliff

Every Song Ever (eBook, ePUB)

Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From one of America's celebrated critics, the definitive field guide to listening to music in the age of the Cloud

The most significant revolution in the recent history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly flit across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. Yet music criticism has historically focused on the musician's intent, not the listener's experience. Every Song Ever is therefore the definitive field guide to listening in an age of glorious, overwhelming abundance. By revealing the essential similarities between wildly different kinds of music, Ben Ratliff shows how we listen to music now, and suggests how we can listen better.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846146855
• Artikelnr.: 44012244

Autorenporträt

Ben Ratliff has been a music critic for The New York Times since 1996. His book Coltrane: The Story of a Sound was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Bronx.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1 Let Me Concentrate!: Repetition
2 Past Present Future: Slowness
3 Draft Me!: Speed
4 What If We Both Should Want More?: Transmission
5 We Don't Need No Music: Quiet/Silence/Intimacy
6 Church Bell Tone: Stubbornness and the Single Note
7 Elevation: Virtuosity
8 Blue Rules: Sadness
9 Getting Clear: Audio Space
10 Purple, Green, Turquoise: Endless Inventory
11 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know: Wasteful Authority
12 Granite and Fog: Density
13 As It First Looks: Improvisation
14 Eyeball to Eyeball: Closeness
15 Just a Little Bit: Loudness
16 R.S.V.P.: Discrepancy
17 I Still Believe I Hear: Memory and Historical Truth
18 On the Waves: Linking
19 Mi Gente: Community and Exclusivity
20 Slowly Fading out of Sight: The Perfect Moment
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

A music appreciation guide for our era ... Brilliant Dan Chiasson New York Review of Books