Music Of Our Time
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Author | : Richard Powers |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374706417 |
“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
Author | : Thomas Stumpf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Illuminating the author's unshakeable faith in the power of music in people's lives, this text draws upon the fields of literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious thought to highlight the importance of music in an increasingly chaotic and techno-centric world. Issues such as the folly of the work/play mindset and the relationship of music to time's inexorable passage are discussed, as are many ways in which music can lead to a deeper understanding of the human condition. The superficiality of the market-driven world of professional pop music and the ineffectual approach of traditional music education are also explored.
Author | : John Burnside |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691218862 |
"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
Author | : Jennifer Bryant |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802852297 |
Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.
Author | : Joan Peyser |
Publisher | : Bold Strummer |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780912483993 |
Author | : Robert Winter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Barenboim |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
From Israel's most celebrated musician and outspoken critic comes an examination of the power of music to transform society.
Author | : Ralph Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anders Beyer |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Extensive and generously illustrated interviews have been a feature of the lively Danish music periodical Dansk Musik Tidsskrift (Danish Music Review) since the 1960s. Now a long-standing tradition, these conversations with influential composers from all over the world are prepared by professional musicians and experienced writers on music. This volume is a collection of interviews selected from issues published since 1990 by Anders Beyer, the journal's editor-in-chief.
Author | : Sam Taplin |
Publisher | : Usborne |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780794544850 |
Sometimes, after lunchtime, after a family cook-out, or after playing, babies and toddlers need some quiet time to rest, relax and have some quality time with their parents. This book will be the perfect tool to allow children and their parents to have a calmer moment. Listen to the quiet music as you follow a band of little animals going down a river on a raft playing classics like Pachelbel's canon and other famous soothing music.