Description
| Product ID: | 9781035023974 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Holding the Note |
| Subtitle: | Writing On Music |
| Authors: | Author: David Remnick |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Music, Music |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time. <p><b>ESSAYS ON ARETHA FRANKLIN, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BOB DYLAN, PAUL MCCARTNEY, LEONARD COHEN, BUDDY GUY, MAVIS STAPLES, PATTI SMITH</b><br><br>A <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Year 2023<br><br>The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In <i>Holding the Note</i>, David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of <i>The New Yorker</i>, writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.<br><br>He portrays a series of musical lives – Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more – and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. These are intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our time written with a lifetime’s passionate attachment to music that has shaped us all.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-12 |