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Wherever the Sound Takes You : Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making / David Rowell.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 Available online
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2019- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowell, David, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical instruments--Anecdotes.
- Musicians--Anecdotes.
- Rock musicians--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.) : 12 halftones
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He’s spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music’s meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying to understand their connection to their chosen instrument, what they’ve put themselves through for their music, and what they feel when they play. This wide-ranging and openhearted book blossoms outward from there. Rowell visits clubs, concert halls, street corners, and open mics, traveling from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to a death metal festival in Maryland, with stops along the way in the Swiss Alps and Appalachia. His keen reportorial eye treats us to in-depth portraits of musicians from platinum-selling legend Peter Frampton to a devout Christian who spends his days alone in a storage unit bashing away on one of the largest drum sets in the world. Rowell illuminates the feelings that both spur music’s creation and emerge from its performance, as well as the physical instruments that enables their expression. With an uncommon sensitivity and grace, he charts the pleasure and pain of musicians consumed with what they do—as all of us listen in.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Set List
- Prelude: The Necessary Equipment
- Chapter 1. “In Switzerland Nothing Is Easy”
- Chapter 2. Do You Feel Like We Do?
- Chapter 3. Complicated Rhythms
- Chapter 4. The Keys to Happiness
- Chapter 5. Going for the One
- Chapter 6. Into the Darkness
- Chapter 7. “You May Have Never Heard Nothing Like This Before”
- Chapter 8. Two for the Show
- On the Record
- Liner Notes
- Sound Check
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-226-60893-X
- OCLC:
- 1198930739
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