Loving music till it hurts / William Cheng.

Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the 'Star-Spangled Banner' at the Super Bowl. An under...

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Main Author: Cheng, William, 1985- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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505 0 |a Prelude: Loving music and loving people -- Misjudgments of humanity -- Princes and paupers -- Moral masquerades -- Interlude: loving musicology till it hurts: Feeling overcome -- The worst you've ever sounded -- Jordan Russell Davis -- Postlude: songs without words. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 8 |a Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the 'Star-Spangled Banner' at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of fierce protection. 
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