A personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices
is a book about our deepest, most telling relationships with music.
Nick Coleman examines the act of singing not as a performance, but as a
close, difficult moment of hopeful connection. What does it do to us,
emotionally and psychologically, to listen hard and habitually to
somebody else’s singing? Why is human song so essential to our lives?
The book asks many other questions, too: Why did Jagger and Lennon sing
like that (and not like this)? Billie, Janis, Amy: must the voices of
anguish always dissolve into spectacle? What makes us turn again and
again to a singing human voice?
The history of postwar popular
music is often told sociologically or in terms of musicological
influence and innovation in style. Voices
offers a different, intimate perspective. In ten discrete but cohering
essays, Coleman tackles the arc of that history as an emotional
experience with real psychological consequences. He writes about the
voices that have affected the ways he feels about and understands the
world―from Aretha Franklin to Amy Winehouse, Marvin Gaye to David Bowie.
Ultimately, Voices is the story of what it is to listen and be moved―what it is to feel emotion.
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