On celestial music
Subtitle: and other adventures in listening
By: Rick Moody
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780316105217
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Description: A novelist discusses his love of music and how it inspires his writing, including his infatuation with the Velvet Underground as well as more modern bands including Magnetic Fields, Wilco, and The Pogues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and literature : an introduction; title: Against cool (1997/2004); title: On Meredith Monk (2002); title: 31 love songs (2003); title: How to be a Christian artist : On the Danielson Famile (2004); title: Five songs (by Wilco) (2005); title: Guilty pleasures (2005); title: Some propositions concerning the lounge lizards (2006); title: The Pete Townshend fragments (2006); title: Two weeks at music camp (2007); title: On celestial music (2007); title: The problem of impairment (2008); title: The New York underground, 1965-1987 (2009); title: Europe, forsake your drum machines! (2010).