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If it Sounds Good, It is Good

Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

ISBN-13: 9781629637921

Contributor(s): Richard Manning (author), Rick Bass (foreword by)

Subjects: Music

Publisher: Pm Press

Publisher Imprint: Pm Press

Publication Date: 01-10-2020

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£25.99

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About the book

American roots muscic is not a product of an elite leisure class, as some academics contend, but of explosive creativity among slaves, hillbillies, fieldhands, drunks, slackers, and hucksters. Yet these poor, working-class people, built the foundations of jazz, gospel, blues, bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, and country music, an unparalleled burst of invention. This is the counterfactual to the academics' story. Manning takes us down a long, strange path, following music to deeper understandings of racism, slavery, inequality, meditation, addiction, the science of our brains, and ultimately to an enticing glimpse of pure religion.

If it Sounds Good, It is Good

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