Try Whistling This: Writings on Music

by Andrew Ford

Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history.

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 Furtw ngler to keep conducting under the Nazis. He explores the intersection of words and music, the bugbear of Australian musical identity, and the fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863955712
• ISBN13: 9781863955713
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"