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Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more鈥�from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon鈥攅xplore the influence of music on their lives and work

Contributors include: Laurie Anderson 鈼� Jamie Barton 鈼� Daphne A. Brooks 鈼� Edgar Choueiri 鈼� Jeff Dolven 鈼� Gustavo Dudamel 鈼� Edward Dusinberre 鈼� Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 鈼� Frank Gehry 鈼� James Ginsburg 鈼� Ruth Bader Ginsburg 鈼� Jane Hirshfield 鈼� Pico Iyer 鈼� Alexander Kluge 鈼� Nathaniel Mackey 鈼� Maureen N. McLane 鈼� Alicia Hall Moran 鈼� Jason Moran 鈼� Paul Muldoon 鈼� Elaine Pagels 鈼� Robert Pinsky 鈼� Richard Powers 鈼� Brian Seibert 鈼� Arnold Steinhardt 鈼� Susan Stewart 鈼� Abigail Washburn 鈼� Carrie Mae Weems 鈼� Susan Wheeler 鈼� C. K. Williams 鈼� Wu Fei



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What happens when extraordinary creative spirits鈥攎usicians, poets, critics, and scholars, as well as an architect, a visual artist, a filmmaker, a scientist, and a legendary Supreme Court justice鈥攁re asked to reflect on their favorite music? The result is Ways of Hearing, a diverse collection that explores the ways music shapes us and our shared culture. These acts of musical witness bear fruit through personal essays, conversations and interviews, improvisatory meditations, poetry, and visual art. They sound the depths of a remarkable range of musical genres, including opera, jazz, bluegrass, and concert music both classical and contemporary.

This expansive volume spans styles and subjects, including Pico Iyer鈥檚 meditations on Handel, Arnold Steinhardt鈥檚 thoughts on Beethoven鈥檚 Grosse Fuge, and Laurie Anderson and Edgar Choueiri鈥檚 manifesto for spatial music. Richard Powers discusses the one thing about music he鈥檚 never told anyone, Daphne Brooks draws sonic connections between Toni Morrison and C茅cile McLorin Salvant, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals what she thinks is the sexiest duet in opera. Poems interspersed throughout further expand how we can imagine and respond to music. Ways of Hearing is a book for our times that celebrates the infinite ways music enhances our lives.