Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do: Writing about Music, Meaning, and the Ineffable - Softcover

Heng Hartse, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498293824 ISBN 13: 9781498293822

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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 “dancing about architecture.” 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 “parallel artistic effort” 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.

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Joel Heng Hartse is a youth group dropout turned know-it-all music critic who lives in Vancouver, BC with his wife. He has written about music for a number of publications including Paste, Geez, Blurt, Christianity Today, Beliefnet, the Stranger, the Portland Mercury, Killing the Buddha, Image, and a number of other publications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498293824
• ISBN 13: 9781498293822
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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