{"product_id":"9781921870682","title":"Try Whistling This: Writings on Music","description":"Perceptive and entertaining, \u003ci\u003eTry Whistling This\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwängler to keep conducting under the Nazis. He explores the intersection of words and music, the bugbear of Australian musical identity, and the fundamental importance, in music and in life, of listening. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There are essays based on Ford’s acclaimed radio series Music and Fashion, as well as illuminating examinations of music-makers from Mozart to Shostakovich, Elgar to Britten, Cole Porter to Bob Dylan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTry Whistling This\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliant communicator offers a fresh take on music and changing times. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘In his latest collection, Andrew Ford delivers with such rare clarity and passion that even the self-confessed cloth-eared and tone deaf will be musically awakened and enlightened’—Richard Tognetti \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘a top-notch critic…Our own answer to America’s Alex Ross.’—\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘entertaining and knowledgeable.’—\u003ci\u003eCourier Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Ford is the most literate of composers; the most musical of writers. He demonstrates a seemingly endless knowledge of his field, while writing brilliant, entertaining criticism.’—\u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Ford is the author of \u003ci\u003eEarth Dances, Try Whistling This, Illegal Harmonies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a composer and broadcaster and presents \u003ci\u003eThe Music Show\u003c\/i\u003e on ABC Radio National.","brand":"Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137254113520,"sku":"9781921870682","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921870682_p0.jpg?v=1763632043","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921870682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}