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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52929177 Title: Sonata for jukebox : pop music, memory, and the imagined life Author: Geoffrey O'Brien Publisher: New York : Counterpoint, ©2004. ISBN/ISSN: 1582431922 9781582431925 9781582433295 1582433291 OCLC:52929177

  
  

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Sonata for jukebox : pop music, memory, and the imagined life

Author:	Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher:	New York : Counterpoint, ©2004.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	"How does music infiltrate your life and shape the way you remember it? What do you really hear when you listen, for perhaps the thousandth time, to a well-loved song, a song inextricably tied to who you are and where you've been?" "Geoffrey O'Brien - whom Luc Sante has called "a school unto himself"--Has written a history of pop music from the listener's side. Part memoir, part meditation on how music can be part of a personal mythology, this wide-ranging book is as diverse, eclectic, and satisfying as the music itself. Sonata for Jukebox is a mix tape including Tin Pan Alley and Western Swing, ska and soca, surf music, movie themes and radio jingles, Burt Bacharach and Smokey Robinson, Dock Boggs, the Shirelles, and the Beach Boys: a free-floating archive of shared sounds that has become, in the age of recording, almost physically part of us. Drawing on memories of a family steeped in music - a grandfather's Depression-era dance band, a father's radio career as a Top 40 DJ, a brother's early forays as a rock drummer - O'Brien interweaves his personal story with this public soundtrack, tracing the many ways in which music becomes a gateway to private worlds." "From one of our most original essayists and critics, Sonata for Jukebox, with its dizzying array of musical references, its heartrending personal stories, and its vivid evocation of half a century of pop music's evolution, is a remarkable exploration of how people use music to understand and give cadence to their lives."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Popular music -- Psychological aspects. Popular music -- Analysis, appreciation. Popmusik. View all subjects
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