When Words Fail
A Life with Music, War and Peace
Published on 4. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-78378-337-3 (ISBN)
Description
Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire?
From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...
From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78378-337-3 (9781783783373)
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09/2018
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Person
Ed Vulliamy is the author of Amexica and The War is Dead: Long Love The War. He has been an Observer journalist for 20 years and is the author of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th anniversary liner notes.