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Holding the Note David Remnick

Holding the Note By David Remnick

Holding the Note by David Remnick

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time.

Holding the Note Summary

Holding the Note: Writing On Music by David Remnick

ESSAYS ON ARETHA FRANKLIN, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BOB DYLAN, PAUL MCCARTNEY, LEONARD COHEN, BUDDY GUY, MAVIS STAPLES, PATTI SMITH

The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing 'Respect' or Bob Dylan performing 'Blind Willie McTell', have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winnning journalist and editor of The New Yorker, writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.

He portrays a series of musical lives - Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more - and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. These are intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our time written with a lifetime's passionate attachment to music that has shaped us all.

Holding the Note Reviews

Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious * The Times *
This collection of articles by David Remnick can stand as literature. ... He treats the reader as an informed, intelligent equal * The New York Times *
[A] standout collection of pieces . . . What's most remarkable is [Remnick's] ability to give due at once to the artists' larger-than-life musical legacies and their all too human fallibilities * Publishers Weekly *
Written over the past three decades, these are keenly observed, deeply felt, and judiciously detailed encounters of genuine communion mixing interviews, biography, and analysis, all lyrically and radiantly composed . . . There is acuity here, bemusement, tenderness, and gratitude -- Donna Seaman * Booklist *
Remnick, the intellectually nimble editor of the New Yorker, has lately been focusing closely on world politics, but he finds time to profile a number of artists who, having enjoyed early success, 'were all grappling, in music and in their own lives, with their diminishing gifts and mortality.'. . . There's dish here . . . and plenty of astute observation . . . A perceptive pleasure for literate music lovers * Kirkus Reviews *

About David Remnick

David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998. He was a staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998 and, previous to that, the Washington Post's correspondent in the Soviet Union. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. He is the author of seven books, including Holding the Note, King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, and The Bridge, a biography of Barack Obama. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

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NGR9781035023974
9781035023974
1035023970
Holding the Note: Writing On Music by David Remnick
David Remnick
New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2023-10-12
304
N/A
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