When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace - Softcover

Vulliamy, Ed

 
9781783783373: When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1783783370 ISBN 13: 9781783783373
Verlag: Granta Books, 2019

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Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire? From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writer. He has won numerous British journalism awards for his work in the Balkans, Iraq and Mexico, including the James Cameron Memorial Award, and in the Poland, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for literary reportage. His latest book is When Words Fail: A Life With Music, War and Peace. He is currently working on a book about music and musicians at war in Ukraine.

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Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire? From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1783783370
ISBN 13 
9781783783373
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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