Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life - Coleman, Nick
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1. Voices was a project started by the author when he learned that he would soon lose his hearing and become completely deaf. This book is "a harvest and a storage" of the emotional and psychological responses to the human voice in song that Coleman sought to preserve for himself, and a wider meditation on why vocal music--particularly post-war popular music--is such an important part of our lives 2. Voices explores the way we internalise others' voices in the interests of our own development/happiness/understanding of the world--a largely unconscious process but a vivid one for all that. And…mehr

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1. Voices was a project started by the author when he learned that he would soon lose his hearing and become completely deaf. This book is "a harvest and a storage" of the emotional and psychological responses to the human voice in song that Coleman sought to preserve for himself, and a wider meditation on why vocal music--particularly post-war popular music--is such an important part of our lives 2. Voices explores the way we internalise others' voices in the interests of our own development/happiness/understanding of the world--a largely unconscious process but a vivid one for all that. And a psychologically private one. In other words, it's a book about the intimacy of our deepest, most telling relationships with music
Autorenporträt
Following a brief spell as a stringer at NME in the mid-1980s, NICK COLEMAN was music editor of Time Out for seven years, then arts and features editor at the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has also written on music for The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, New Statesman, Intelligent Life, GQ, and The Wire. He is the author of The Train in the Night, which was short-listed for the 2012 Wellcome Book Prize.