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How to Listen to Modern Music: Without Earplugs

ISBN: 0920151310
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 1999
Pages: 35

Authors: David E. Walden

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• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Dedication
• I Need No Introduction, Shirley
• An Interjection: In Memoriamanensis
• Let Me Clearly State, Right off the Top
• The Maestro s Whereabouts
• Chapter 1: Why Do Most People Hate Modern Music?
• Chapter 2: What IS Modern, Anyway?
• Chapter 3: Why Do Most People Prefer the Good Old Music of the Good Old (Dead) Composers?
• Chapter 4: Romanticism Boils up, and over, and Burns out
• Urgent News Flash Beethovan A Modster
• Chapter 5: Two Oddballs and One (Unknown) Insurance CEO
• Chapter 6: The Mother of Modern Music (with a Hitherto Unrevealed, Explosive and Shocking Revelation)
• Question: What the H___ Happened Circa 1900?
• Chapter 7: The Fertilizer Hits the Fan (12 Times)
• Chapter 8: The Night They Ripped the Seats out at The Four-Square Gospel Hall
• A Seemingly Unrelated Diversion (which isn t) The BoswellJohnson Interchange and Its Modern Relevance
• Chapter 11: Ellroy Frumppe s Shocking Contribution
• Chapter 12: The N.D.P Defends Weirdos
• An Essay: If Music Reflects the Times . . . What Times
• Chapter 13: Control (and Worse) The Lack of It
• Chapter 14: Quotes and the Kiss Principle
• Chapter 15: Pluralism Is Not Polygamy
• A Comment: Certain Asspecks (olde Eng. sp.) of Modern Music
• Chapter 16: The Listener s Guide: From OK to Wacky to Way-Out
• Chapter 17: Terms and Impression Makers for Intermission Chit-Chat
• Chapter 18: The Clothespegs of Modern Music Where to Hang It
• Chapter 19: Music from Towns Other Than Chezlee, Ont, and Its Influence
• Pop-A-Doodle-Doo
• Chapter 20: Modern Music and the Animal Kingdom
• Bedsprings, Sopranos and Axes