On celestial music : and other adventures in listening / Rick Moody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody, Rick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Summary:

A novelist discusses his love of music and how it inspires his writing, including his infatuation with the Velvet Underground as well as more modern bands including Magnetic Fields, Wilco, and The Pogues.

Contents:

Music and literature : an introduction

Against cool (1997/2004)

On Meredith Monk (2002)

31 love songs (2003)

How to be a Christian artist : On the Danielson Famile (2004)

Five songs (by Wilco) (2005)

Guilty pleasures (2005)

Some propositions concerning the lounge lizards (2006)

The Pete Townshend fragments (2006)

Two weeks at music camp (2007)

On celestial music (2007)

The problem of impairment (2008)

The New York underground, 1965-1987 (2009)

Europe, forsake your drum machines! (2010).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780316105217

031610521X

OCLC:

707964980