Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music

Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Strange Attractor Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 March 2015
Pages
192
ISBN
9781907222214

Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music

An anthology of essays drawn fromThe Wire’s monthly Epiphanies column.Epiphanies- Life-changing Encounters With Musicis a new anthology of essays drawn fromThe Wire’s monthly Epiphanies column, which has been running in the magazine since issue 167 (January 1998). The book includes more than 50 essays in which a wide range of musicians, authors and critics detail their personal experiences of music’s transformative powers. Subjects covered range from Sun Ra to Kate Bush; Fugazi to Ligeti; South Africa’s World Cup vuvuzelas to Hungarian prog rock; noisy street protests to the deathly silence inside an anechoic chamber. The book has been edited byThe Wire’s Editor-in-Chief & Publisher Tony Herrington and designed by the magazine’s Art Director Ben Weaver, with illustrations by Sculpture’s Reuben Sutherland. Contributors Little Annie, Jerry Dammers, Geeta Dayal, Paul Gilroy, Michael Gira, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jonny Greenwood, David Grubbs, Adam Harper, Stewart Lee, Lydia Lunch, Momus, Ian Penman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Nina Power, Simon Reynolds, Sukhdev Sandhu, Robert Wyatt and more.

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