When Words Fail A Life with Music, War and Peace

Informationen zum Autor Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writer. He has won numerous British journalism awards for his work in the Balkans, Iraq and Mexico, including the James Cameron Memorial Award, and in the Poland, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for literary reportage. His latest book is When Words Fail: A Life With Music, War and Peace . He is currently working on a book about music and musicians at war in Ukraine. Klappentext Sixteen life-changing live music events are looked at to address how music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has interacted with politics, including Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival and the 2016 Bataclan siege. Contains interviews with Patti Smith, Graham Nash and more.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ed Vulliamy, Vulliamy Ed
• Verlag: Granta Books
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2018
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9781783783366
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-336-6
• Themen: Jimi Hendrix, Rock n Roll, Leningrad, MUSIC / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Social History, Daniel Barenboim, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History and Archaeology, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Shostakovich, BB King, Shirley Hughes, Led Zepelin, war music