Try Whistling This: Writings on Music

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Andrew Ford

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In Try Whistling This, join a perceptive critic on a pleasurable journey through music and musicians, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to 1610, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwangler to keep conducting under the Nazis. He explores the intersection of words and music, the bugbear of Australian musical identity, and the fundamental importance, in music and in life, of listening. There are essays based on Ford's acclaimed radio series Music and Fashion, as well as a set of illuminating examinations of music-makers from Mozart to Shostakovich, Cole Porter to Bob Dylan. Try Whistling This offers another take on history, told through music, and shows a brilliant communicator in action.

Author Biography:

Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster, and the author of Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age and The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity.

Release date NZ

July 25th, 2012

Author

Andrew Ford

Pages

352

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Collection

Australia

Dimensions

153x233x26

ISBN-13

9781863955713

Product ID

19865058

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