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Date Posted: 15:14:43 04/26/05 Tue
Author: Kendra
Subject: Sounds and society

"Sounds and society" is an ineresting account of the links between musical culture and sociological culture. The author brings up a lot of good ideas and definitely did his homework. I think there are too many ideas, theories and theorists discussed in this book, though. I think it would have been better if he had chosen key points and talked about them in greater detail. I thought Cooke's theory about the language of music was something to think about ("notes, like words, have emotional connotations"). After hearing many of the guest musicians we have had, that theory makes some sense to me. They all say that if they try to write a song, they can't. However, if they just let it come to them, it's much easier. This seems to be somewhat of an unconscious effort in music writing.

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