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Counterpoint Press 2004 Hardcover Very good A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
Counterpoint Press, Date: 2004. Hardcover. Like New. Former library book; Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. Counterpoint Press ISBN 1582431922 9781582431925 [US]
ISBN10: 1582431922, ISBN13: 9781582431925, [publisher: Counterpoint] Hardcover First 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. [] ...
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