Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
by Barenboim, Daniel; Said, Edward W
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375421068
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421068
- Seller
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Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States
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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
- Miranda Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2405060030
- Title
- Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
- Author
- Barenboim, Daniel; Said, Edward W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375421068
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421068
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002-09-30
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 14 oz
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