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“I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.”
There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what’s going on inside us when we listen.
Michel Faber explores two big questions: how do we listen to music and why do we listen to music? To answer these questions, he considers a range of factors, which includes age, illness, the notion of “cool,” commerce, the dichotomy between “good” and “bad” taste, and much more.
From the award-winning author of The Crimson Petal and the White and Under the Skin, this idiosyncratic and philosophical book reflects Michel Faber’s lifelong obsession with music of all kinds. Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.
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“Nathaniel Priestley’s creative pitch patterns and British enunciation give wonderful vitality to Michel Faber’s colorful prose and expansive thinking about music…This top-shelf writing could not have found a better narrator than Nathaniel Priestley, who consistently finds the exact vocal tone to express one hundred percent of this author’s originality. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“An entertaining excursus into the noisy world of music…The real medium, he insists, is your mind, and it’s our instrument, too…Great, smart fun, and full of theses to provoke arguments and pointers for new ways to, yes, listen.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Michel Faber
Michel Faber has written eight books, including the Whitbread shortlisted novel Under the Skin. He has also written two novellas and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St. James, and Macallan.
About Nathaniel Priestley
Chelsea Stephens is an experienced voice actor with a talent for mystery, sci-fi, and YA novels. She won an AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter. She has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in onstage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds.