A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781732610361)

Similar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers' minds.

A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic relationship between ourselves and the songs we love: the way in which songs work upon our minds and in which our minds, because of the inevitable creative force of our imaginations and memories, work upon them. The book does not propose or develop a unified argument, nor does it tell, chronologically, the story of the author's life of listening. Instead, in recognition of the varied, fluid, and ultimately mysterious ways in which our minds respond to songs, it is structured associatively, with one topic inspiring thoughts of another; the book begins with a song drifting into the author's mind, and it ends with that mind still in the midst of listening, waiting for a beat that will never come.

Author: Chris Forhan
ISBN-10: 1732610363
ISBN-13: 9781732610361
Publisher: Overcup Press
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.87d