Try Whistling This: Writings on Music

Andrew Ford

Try Whistling This: Writings on Music
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Black Inc.
Country
Australia
Published
25 July 2012
Pages
352
ISBN
9781863955713

Try Whistling This: Writings on Music

Andrew Ford

Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history.

Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdeness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtw ngler to keep conducting under the Nazis. He explores the intersection of words and music, the bugbear of Australian musical identity, and the fundamental importance, in music and in life, of listening.

There are essays based on ford’s acclaimed radio series Music and Fashion, as well as illuminating examinations of music-makers from Mozart to Messiaen, Elgar to Brett Dean, Cole Porter to Bob Dylan

In Try Whistling This, a brilliant communicator offers a fresh take on music and changing times.

‘In this collection, Andrew Ford delivers with such rare clarity and passion that even the self-confessed cloth-eared and tone dead will be musically awakened and enlightened.’ Richard Tognetti

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