Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life by O'Brien, Geoffrey - 2004

Counterpoint LLC, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Counterpoint LLC, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Counterpoint. Used - Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. Very Good.

Perseus Books Group, March 2004. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.

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Counterpoint, 2004. Later. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1582431922 Tight, clean.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Counterpoint, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dazzling and original, SONATA FOR JUKEBOX is a brilliant foray into how pop music has woven itself into our lives since the dawn of the recording age. Geoffrey O'Brien has delved into 20th-century pop music as we experience it: a phenomenon that is at once public and private; personal yet popular. This is not a history of pop music, although fragments of that history find their way into its pages. It is not a memoir, although it is an entertaining biography of the author's ears and his family's exceptional affinity with pop music-his father was a leading New York DJ and his grandfather led a dance band in Philadelphia. It is an exploration of what listeners hear, what they think they hear, and how they connect it with the rest of their lives. The dizzying array of musical references will play through the reader's mind like a soundtrack as O'Brien explores how lives are lived in… Read More

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