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Every song ever : twenty ways to listen to music now / Ben Ratliff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [London] UK : Penguin Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 259 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1846146860
  • 9781846146862
Other title:
  • 20 ways to listen to music now
  • Twenty ways to listen to music now
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.17 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3838 .R29 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- Let me concentrate!: Repetition -- Past present future: Slowness -- Draft me!: Speed -- What if we both should want more?: Transmission -- We don't need no music: Quiet/Silence/Intimacy -- Church bell tone: Stubbornness and the single note -- Elevation: Virtuosity -- Blue rules: Sadness -- Getting clear: Audio space -- Purple, green, turquoise: Endless inventory -- I forgot more than you'll ever know: Wasteful authority -- Granite and fog: Density -- As it first looks: Improvisation -- Eyeball to eyeball: Closeness -- Just a little bit: Loudness -- R.S.V.P.: Discrepancy -- I still believe I hear: Memory and historical truth -- On the waves: Linking -- Mi Gente: Community ad exclusivity -- Slowly fading out of sight: The perfect moment.
Summary: "For the first time ever, we have all the music in the world to choose from. As Ben Ratliff, one of America's celebrated music critics, shows us, it's time to listen in a new way too. Opening our ears to unexpected connections, new experiences and little-known delights, this book will change the way you appreciate music forever."--Back cover.
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"First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016"--Title page verso.

"First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discography.

Introduction -- Let me concentrate!: Repetition -- Past present future: Slowness -- Draft me!: Speed -- What if we both should want more?: Transmission -- We don't need no music: Quiet/Silence/Intimacy -- Church bell tone: Stubbornness and the single note -- Elevation: Virtuosity -- Blue rules: Sadness -- Getting clear: Audio space -- Purple, green, turquoise: Endless inventory -- I forgot more than you'll ever know: Wasteful authority -- Granite and fog: Density -- As it first looks: Improvisation -- Eyeball to eyeball: Closeness -- Just a little bit: Loudness -- R.S.V.P.: Discrepancy -- I still believe I hear: Memory and historical truth -- On the waves: Linking -- Mi Gente: Community ad exclusivity -- Slowly fading out of sight: The perfect moment.

"For the first time ever, we have all the music in the world to choose from. As Ben Ratliff, one of America's celebrated music critics, shows us, it's time to listen in a new way too. Opening our ears to unexpected connections, new experiences and little-known delights, this book will change the way you appreciate music forever."--Back cover.

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