- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
A curious book that will change your relationship with the heard world
In Listen, Michel Faber's lifelong passion for music culminates in an intriguing exploration of two big questions: how we listen to music and why we listen to music. He muses on the notion of 'cool', delves into the rich lodes of commercial and aesthetic worth and interviews a panoply of people who experience music in different ways, unlocking some surprising answers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Who This Book Is For
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Who Doesn’t Like Music?
- The Ears of a Child 1: Hip Unhip Hooray
- The Ears of a Child 2: Something Really Bad, Like Cat Poo
- Sorry for Your Lost
- Different Strokes for Different Folks
- The Siren Call of Horrible Din
- A Needle Through Your Brow
- Somewhat Marred by an Echo
- The Force of the Blow
- On Having No Voice
- Tender Exotics
- The Kind of Things That Hegemony Just Can’t Buy
- Ambient 1: Music for Private Banking
- Let’s Hear It One More Time for Ludwig!
- Where I Got My Parka
- Overcome With All the Excitement
- The Awful Taste of Your Inferiors
- Thank You for Making My Opinion Cool
- According to Whom?
- Pleasure About Humans
- Impossible to Hear (On Rolf Harris, R. Kelly and Morrissey)
- Let’s Rumble
- Girl You Know It’s True
- The Dead Give Up Their Doonicans
- The Tracks of My Tears
- A Thing That Merely Takes Up Space and Gathers Dust
- You’ve Reached the Start
- Acknowledgements
- Song Credits
- Index