I'm happy to present the cover for my next book, Listen To This, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish on September 28th. The UK edition will appear in January 2011, courtesy of Fourth Estate. The table of contents is as follows:
Part I
1. Listen to This: Crossing the Border from Classical to Pop
2. Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music
History
3. Infernal Machines: How Recordings Changed Music
Part II
4. The Storm of Style: Mozart’s Golden Mean
5. Orbiting: Radiohead’s Grand Tour
6. The Anti-Maestro: Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
7. Great Soul: Searching for Schubert
8. Emotional Landscapes: Björk’s Saga
9. Symphony of Millions: Classical Music in China
10. Song of the Earth: The Arctic Sound of John Luther Adams
11. Verdi’s Grip: Opera as a Popular Art
12. Almost Famous: On the Road with the St. Lawrence Quartet
13. Edges of Pop: Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra,
Kurt Cobain
14. Learning the Score: The Crisis in Music Education
15. Voice of the Century: Marian Anderson
16. The Music Mountain: Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro
Part III
17. I Saw the Light: Following Bob Dylan
18. Fervor: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
19. Blessed Are the Sad: Late Brahms