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When Words Fail

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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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ISBN: 9781783783373
Publication date: 4th July 2019
Author: Ed Vulliamy
Illustrator: Shirley Hughes
Publisher: Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 486 pages
Genres: Music
Art music, orchestral and formal music
History of music
Music: styles and genres