On Celestial Music
And Other Adventures in Listening- By Rick Moody
Full Description
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. ... more
Audio and Video
- Category:
- MUSIC
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 3/21/2012
- Price:
- $15.99/$17.50
- ISBN:
- 9780316105217
- Pages:
- 448
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
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