ISBN: 9781582431925 - sonata for jukebox: pop music, memory, and the imagined life (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Gebunden. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungelesenes, vollständiges Exemplar; in sehr gutem Zustand, leichte Lagerspuren, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet -OriginalBarCode: 9781582431925 304 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st printing. 328pp. w/Bibliography & "A Jukebox of the Mind, 1929-1982." Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "How does music infiltrate your life and shape the way you remember it? What do you really hear when you listen, for perhaps the thousandth time, to a well-loved song, a song inextricably tied to who you are and where you've been? [] Geoffrey O'Brien--whom Lucy Sante has called 'a school unto himself'--has written a history of pop music from the listener's side. Part memoir, part meditation on how music can be part of a personal mythology, this wide-ranging book is as diverse, eclectic, and satisfying as the music itself. SONATA FOR JUKEBOX is a mix tape including Tin Pan Alley and Western Swing, ska and soca, surf music, movie themes and radio jingles, Burt Bacharach and Smokey Robinson, Dock Boggs, the Shirelles, and the Beach Boys: a free-floating archive of shared sounds that has become, in the age of recording, almost physically part of us. Drawing on memories of a family steeped in music--a grandfather's Depression-era dance band, a father's radio career as a Top 40 DJ, a brother's early forays as a rock drummer--O'Brien interweaves his personal story with this public soundtrack, tracing the many ways in which music becomes a gateway to private worlds. [] From one of our most original essayists and critics, SONATA FOR JUKEBOX, with its dizzying array of musical references, its heartrending personal stories, and its vivid evocation of half a century of pop music's evolution, is a remarkable exploration of how people use music to understand and give cadence to their lives." [jacket copy] "A bath of musical memory and association, drenched with emotion, time, and space."--Kirkus Reviews. "'An author who teaches a writer nothing teaches nobody anything,' Walter Benjamin once said. There can't be a writer alive who wouldn't learn from this book, or a reader who won't be surprised."--Greil Marcus. "By retrieving a lifetime of powerful memories buried in old recordings, Geoffrey O'Brien has written a book that sings. Here is a sly, worldly, joyful soundtrack of his American life . . . In the same way that songs often express for us the things we cannot say, O'Brien's book mines the uncanny, loaded pleasures of flipping on the radio and hearing a song in the key of your own life. His search for personal messages in the sounds of hitmakers like the Beatles, The Beach Boys, the Delmore Brothers and Burt Bacharach yields a subtle, significant achievement."--Nicholas Dawidoff. "I defy you to name any precedent for what O'Brien does. He is a school unto himself."--Lucy Sante. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a handsome, intact jacket covered in archival mylar. Quite presentable & collectible.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 10.50x6.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Very Good. Das Buch befindet sich in einem guten, gelesenen Zustand. Die Seiten und der Einband sind intakt. Buchrücken/Ecken/Kanten können leichte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen.