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Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do

by Heng Hartse Joel Heng Hartse

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1 cm

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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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  • Author

    Heng Hartse Joel Heng Hartse

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    February 2022

  • Weight

    218g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498293822

  • ISBN-10

    1498293824

  • Eden Code

    5665419

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