Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do (eBook)

Writing about Music, Meaning, and the Ineffable

Joel Heng Hartse (Autor)

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2022
164 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4982-9383-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Writing about music, far from being the specialized domain of the rock critic with encyclopedic knowledge of micro-genres or the fancy-pants star journalist flying on private planes with Led Zeppelin, has become something almost any music lover can do--and does. It's been said, however, that writing about music is a difficult, even pointless enterprise--an absurd impossibility, like "e;dancing about architecture."e; But aside from the fact that dancing about architecture would be awesome, what is that ineffable something that drives people to write about music at all? In this short, insightful book, Joel Heng Hartse unpacks the rock writer Richard Meltzer's assertion that writing about music should be a "e;parallel artistic effort"e; with music itself--and argues that music and the impulse to write about it is part of the eminently mysterious desire for meaning-making that makes us human. Touching on the close resonances between music, language, love, and belief, Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do is relevant to anyone who finds deep human and spiritual meaning in music, writing, and the mysterious connections between them.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2022
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do • History and Criticism • history of music • Joel Heng Hartse • music • Musical criticism • Music reviews and criticism • Philosophy and Social Aspects • popular music • Religious aspects • Theory of music and musicology
• ISBN-10: 1-4982-9383-2 / 1498293832
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-9383-9 / 9781498293839