For the love of it : amateuring and its rivals / Wayne Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Wayne C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cellists--United States--Biography.

Cellists.

Booth, Wayne C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. ""If, in truth, Booth is an amateur player now in his fifth decade of amateuring, he is certainly not an amateur thinker about music and culture. . . . Would that all of us who think and teach and care about music could be so practical and profound at the same time.""-Peter Kountz, New York Times Book Review

Contents:

For the Love of It; Contents; Acknowledgments; OVERTURE What Is an Amateur and Why Amateuring Matters; FIRST MOVEMENT The Courtship; SECOND MOVEMENT The Marriage; THIRD MOVEMENT The Love Fulfilled; FOURTH MOVEMENT Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.

ISBN:

9786611430726

OCLC:

437247606