Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
by Daniel Barenboim; Edward W. Said
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747563853
- ISBN 13
- 9780747563853
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Synopsis
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said a Palestinian-American; they are also close friends.As they range across music, literature, and society, they open up many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place; music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozart and Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner's anti-Semitism; and the need for "artistic solutions" to the predicament of the Middle East--something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab and Israeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful and spontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosic collaboration.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Goulds Book Arcade (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172285
- Title
- Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
- Author
- Daniel Barenboim; Edward W. Said
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747563853
- ISBN 13
- 9780747563853
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- [370G POLITICS SOCIAL SCIENCE MUSIC
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