{"product_id":"loving-music-till-it-hurts-hardcover","title":"Loving Music Till It Hurts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Cheng\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer \u003cem\u003ebutchered\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003emangled\u003c\/em\u003e the \"Star-Spangled Banner\" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band \u003cem\u003emade a mockery\u003c\/em\u003e of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite \u003cem\u003edo justice\u003c\/em\u003e to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of fierce protection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's nothing wrong with the human instinct to safeguard beloved music . . . except, perhaps, when this instinct leads us to hurt or neglect fellow human beings in turn: say, by heaping outsized shame upon those who seem to do music wrong; or by rushing to defend a conductor's beautiful recordings while failing to defend the multiple victims who have accused this maestro of sexual assault. \u003cem\u003eLoving Music Till It Hurts\u003c\/em\u003e is a capacious exploration of how people's head-over-heels attachments to music can variously align or conflict with agendas of social justice. How do we respond when loving music and loving people appear to clash?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Cheng\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. His books include \u003cem\u003eSound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2014), \u003cem\u003eJust Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good\u003c\/em\u003e (Michigan, 2016), \u003cem\u003eLoving Music Till It Hurts\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eQueering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2019, coedited with Gregory Barz). He serves as a coeditor of University of Michigan Press's \"Music \u0026amp; Social Justice\" series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42109245358160,"sku":"9780190620134","price":78.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/c1NBRTR6d0xaZVhBWEh5d002VER6dz09.webp?v=1772481083","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/loving-music-till-it-hurts-hardcover","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}