{"product_id":"9780316191883","title":"On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening","description":"Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing,  and this book provides an ample selection from that output.  His anatomy  of the word \u003cem\u003ecool \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was  infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for \u003cem\u003eneat\u003c\/em\u003e. \"On  Celestial Music,\" which was included in\u003ci\u003e Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e,  2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the  vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, \"Try a Little  Tenderness;\" moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of  the Velvet Underground;  and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and  Purcell, close as they are to nature, \"the music of the spheres.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary  groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the  band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical  rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The  Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once  recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story \"Boys.\" Always both  incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into  the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done--and introduces us  to wonderful sounds we may not  know.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069598253296,"sku":"9780316191883","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316191883_p0.jpg?v=1763679432","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316191883","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}