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Paul Bowles on Music
Contributor(s): Bowles, Paul (Author), Mangan, Timothy (Editor), Herrmann, Irene (Editor)
ISBN: 0520236556     ISBN-13: 9780520236554
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $84.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2003
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Annotation: "In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."--Millicent Dillon, author of "You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- Literary Criticism
- Performing Arts | Film - General
Dewey: 780.9
LCCN: 2002155795
Lexile Measure: 1300
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.32" W x 9.16" (1.31 lbs) 292 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
It's an easy enough job if one has something to say, Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. Drawing together the work he did at the intersection of his two passions and professions, writing and music, this volume collects the music criticism Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death.

An intimate of Aaron Copland and protégé of Virgil Thomson, Bowles was a musical sophisticate acquainted with an enormous range of music. His criticism collected here brilliantly illuminates not only the whole range of modernist composition but also film music, jazz, Mexican and Moroccan music, and many other genres. As a reviewer he reports on established artists and young hopefuls, symphonic concerts indoors and out, and important premieres of works by Copland, Thomson, Cage, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky, among others. Written with the austere grace of his better-known literary works, Bowles's criticism enhances our picture of an important era in American music history as well as our sense of his accomplishments and extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century culture.