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This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music
Adam Brent Houghtaling
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Description for This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music
Paperback. Offers a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern era and a collection of essays that attempts to explain what exactly draws us to sad music, and how sad music actually makes us happy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 231 x 28. Weight in Grams: 470.
For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who search the Web for rarities by Radiohead, Elliot Smith, and Miles Davis, this is the book they've been waiting for. This Will End in Tears is both a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern era and a collection of essays that attempts to explain what exactly draws us to sad ... Read more
For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who search the Web for rarities by Radiohead, Elliot Smith, and Miles Davis, this is the book they've been waiting for. This Will End in Tears is both a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern era and a collection of essays that attempts to explain what exactly draws us to sad ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061719677
SKU
V9780061719677
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About Adam Brent Houghtaling
Adam Brent Houghtaling is an editor, writer, musician, and digital consultant living in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews for This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music
A comprehensive, sharply written journey through the music of sadness, of every stripe and from every genre...Whether read straight through or dipped into at random, in times of despair or not, this is a most helpful musical sourcebook through every kind of blue.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Highly entertaining.
Publishers Weekly For the meticulously ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Highly entertaining.
Publishers Weekly For the meticulously ... Read more