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When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace


When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace

Paperback by Vulliamy, Ed

When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace

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ISBN:
9781783783373
Publication Date:
4 Jul 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pages:
496 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 30 Apr - 1 May 2024
When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace

Description

Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire? From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...

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