This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music Paperback - 2012
by Adam Brent Houghtaling
The first and definitive guide to melancholy music--across genres and through timeNthat will lead fans through the albums and artists integral to the miserablist landscape. In a sense, this a book about the saddest songs ever sung.
From the rear cover
Sad music moves us like nothing else, and despite its gloomy nature it also has the curious power to make us happy. In This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music, author Adam Brent Houghtaling explains why, while offering up a compendium of history's masters of melancholy and the greatest sad songs of all time, featuring artists across genres and through time--from torch songs to country weepers to emo classics. Loaded with recommended playlists and insights into our favorite sob songs, This Will End in Tears is a fascinating immersion into the "miserabilist" genre, a musical marker with increasing resonance.
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- Title This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music
- Author Adam Brent Houghtaling
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher It Books
- Date 2012-08-07
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061719677 / 0061719676
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.37 x 1.1 in (23.16 x 16.18 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sadness in music, Melancholy in music
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.59
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2012, Page 0
- People Weekly, 08/13/2012, Page 50
- Publishers Weekly, 07/16/2012, Page 159
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