If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music

by Richard Manning

Book Overview

Music is fundamental to human existence, a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our evolution, encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, arcane, incomplete, ivory-towered, and just plain wrong. He approaches the question from a wholly different angle,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629637920
• ISBN13: 9781629637921
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"