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If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music - Rilegato

Manning, Richard

 
9781629637921: If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music
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ISBN 10: 1629637920 ISBN 13: 9781629637921
Casa editrice: Pm Pr, 2020

Sinossi

Music is fundamental to human existence; it is embedded in our evolution and encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have devised explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, incomplete, ivory-towered, and just plain wrong. He approaches the question from a wholly different angle, using his own guitar and banjo as instruments of discovery. In the process, he finds himself dancing in celebration of music rough and rowdy. American roots music is not a product of an elite leisure class, as some academics contend, but of explosive creativity among slaves, hillbillies, field hands, drunks, slackers, and hucksters. Yet these people'poor, working people'built the foundations of jazz, gospel, blues, bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, and country music, in an unparalleled burst of invention. Use this book to follow where Manning's guitar leads. Ultimately, it sings the American body electric.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rick Bass is a writer and environmental activist. Bass won the Story Prize for books published in 2016 for his collection of new and selected stories, For a Little While. He won the 1995 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for his novel in progress, Where the Sea Used to Be. He was awarded the General Electric Younger Writers Award, a PEN/Nelson Algren Award Special Citation for fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Richard Manning is a lifelong journalist and the author of eleven books. He is a contributing editor for Harper's magazine, was a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University, and has received many awards, especially in environmental journalism.

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Editore
Pm Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1629637920
ISBN 13 
9781629637921
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
258
Contatto del produttore
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