Let's Talk About Love

Author: Carl Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623563283
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while millions of fans around the world adore her “huge pipes” and even bigger feelings. How can anyone say which side is right? This new, expanded edition goes even further, calling on thirteen prominent writers and musicians to respond to themes ranging from sentiment and kitsch to cultural capital and musical snobbery. The original text is followed by lively arguments and stories from Nick Hornby, Krist Novoselic, Ann Powers, Mary Gaitskill, James Franco, Sheila Heti and others. In a new afterword, Carl Wilson examines recent cultural changes in love and hate, including the impact of technology and social media on how taste works (or doesn't) in the 21st century.

Let's Talk about Love

Author: Carl Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781501396809
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
"Non-fans regard Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Black Sabbath's Master of Reality

Author: John Darnielle
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826428991
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
John Darnielle describesMaster of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly.

Celine Dion

Author: Céline Dion
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
ISBN: 9781859093566
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description

Celine Dion

Author: Celine Dion
Publisher: Avon
ISBN: 9780380819058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The talented and beautiful woman who has moved us with her singing now moves us with her words. Celine Dion -- My Story, My Dream is an unforgettable true story of courage, perseverance, dedication, and devotion -- told with the wide-eyed honesty of someone who has basked in the glowing adoration of millions of fans but has never lost touch with her working-class roots. Here is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about the real person behind the magnificent voice. Touching and funny, fascinating and uplifting, it is an exquisitely detailed portrait of a remarkable woman who has never backed away from any challenge...even the most daunting challenges of the heart.

The Rest Is Noise

Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706

Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Miracle

Author: Anne Geddes
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740746960
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Anne Geddes' photographs of Celine Dion with newborn infants.

Celine Dion -- All the Way ... a Decade of Song

Author: Celine Dion
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
ISBN: 9780769297088
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
All the songs from Celine Dion's greatest hits album, expertly arranged by the world-renowned leader in piano arranging, Dan Coates. This book is an industry first: Celine Dion's music has never been available before for easy piano. Titles are: The Power of Love * If You Asked Me To * Beauty and the Beast * Because You Loved Me (Theme from Up Close and Personal) * It's All Coming Back to Me Now * Love Can Move Mountains * To Love You More * My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) * I'm Your Angel (Duet with R. Kelly) * That's the Way It Is * If These Walls Could Talk * The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face * All the Way * Then You Look at Me * I Want You to Need Me * Live.

ENYA

Author: Chilly Gonzales
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
ISBN: 1912722879
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Book Description
Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.

Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love

Author: Carl Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441193707
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.