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Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes

Current price: $14.95
Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes

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Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes

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Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan’s seventh book,
Muse-Sick:
a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans,
Muse-Sick
is a concise and affordable pocket primer follow-up to Brennan’s two previous music missives,
How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy
in the arts and
Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth.
Popular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating people’s homes and haunting their psyche through images and earworm hooks. Justice, at most levels, is something that the average citizen might have little influence upon leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena where some change can concretely occur—by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject the low-hanging, omnipresent commercialized and pre-packaged fruit, we begin to re-balance the world, one engaged listener at a time.
In fifty-nine concise and clear points, Brennan reveals how corporate media has constricted local culture and individual creativity, leading to a lack of diversity within “diversity.”
Muse-Sick’s
narrative portions are driven and made corporeal via the author’s ongoing field-recording chronicles with widely disparate groups, such as the Sheltered Workshop Singers. Marilena Umuhoza Delli’s striking photographs accompany and bring to life each tale.
As John Waters says:
“I didn’t think it was possible to write a shocking book about music anymore. But Brennan has
.”

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