How to Listen to Modern Music: Without Earplugs
How to Listen to Modern Music: Without Earplugs
ISBN: 0920151310
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 35
Pages: 35
Authors: David E. Walden
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Dedication
- I Need No Introduction, Shirley
- An Interjection: In Memoriamanensis
- Let Me Clearly State, Right off the Top
- The Maestro s Whereabouts
- Chapter 1: Why Do Most People Hate Modern Music?
- Chapter 2: What IS Modern, Anyway?
- Chapter 3: Why Do Most People Prefer the Good Old Music of the Good Old (Dead) Composers?
- Chapter 4: Romanticism Boils up, and over, and Burns out
- Urgent News Flash Beethovan A Modster
- Chapter 5: Two Oddballs and One (Unknown) Insurance CEO
- Chapter 6: The Mother of Modern Music (with a Hitherto Unrevealed, Explosive and Shocking Revelation)
- Question: What the H___ Happened Circa 1900?
- Chapter 7: The Fertilizer Hits the Fan (12 Times)
- Chapter 8: The Night They Ripped the Seats out at The Four-Square Gospel Hall
- A Seemingly Unrelated Diversion (which isn t) The BoswellJohnson Interchange and Its Modern Relevance
- Chapter 11: Ellroy Frumppe s Shocking Contribution
- Chapter 12: The N.D.P Defends Weirdos
- An Essay: If Music Reflects the Times . . . What Times
- Chapter 13: Control (and Worse) The Lack of It
- Chapter 14: Quotes and the Kiss Principle
- Chapter 15: Pluralism Is Not Polygamy
- A Comment: Certain Asspecks (olde Eng. sp.) of Modern Music
- Chapter 16: The Listener s Guide: From OK to Wacky to Way-Out
- Chapter 17: Terms and Impression Makers for Intermission Chit-Chat
- Chapter 18: The Clothespegs of Modern Music Where to Hang It
- Chapter 19: Music from Towns Other Than Chezlee, Ont, and Its Influence
- Pop-A-Doodle-Doo
- Chapter 20: Modern Music and the Animal Kingdom
- Bedsprings, Sopranos and Axes
How to Listen to Modern Music: Without Earplugs
ISBN: 0920151310
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 35
Pages: 35
Authors: David E. Walden