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A SOUND MIND - PAUL MORLEY KARTONIERT (TB)

'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul
Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music
as the most rebellious genre of all. Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop
music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved when  as an emerging
music journalist in the 70s  he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia 
endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past  he went searching for
something new  rare and wondrous - and found it in classical music. A soaring polemic  a grumpy
reflection on modern rock  and a fan's love note  A Sound Mind rejects the idea that classical
music is establishment  old  a drag. Instead  the book reveals this genre to be the most
exciting and varied in music. A Sound Mind is a multi-layered memoir of Morley's shifting
musical tastes  but it is also a compelling history of classical music that reveals the genre's
rich and often deviant past - and  hopefully  future. Like a conductor  Morley weaves together
timelines and timeframes in an orchestral narrative that declares the transformative and
resilient power of classical music from Bach to Shostakovich  Brahms to Birtwistle  Mozart to
Cage  travelling from eighteenth century salons to the modern age of Spotify. 'His passion for
centuries of music - both celebrated and obscure - is infectious' - Irish Independent

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