Synopsis
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Hybrid Genre. ONE MORE REVOLUTION writes through the intimate, personal practice of listening to music, of living with music. Beginning with self-interrogation into the author's growing obsession with collecting vinyl records, the narrative spins out into a meditation on how we come to know the music we love, how voices from the past animate and complicate that knowing, and how the ways we consume music tell a deeper story about the ways that music means. Somewhere between memoir and theory, this book demonstrates that personal revelations can animate the work of analysis, that a poetic voice can make a formal claim, and ultimately, that language can articulate the ways that music moves us.
"In our current culture, I have noticed there are many writers who can wax extensively about what music means to them and to others within a social context, but who lack a deep understanding of how music really works as a craft and a means of making structures. On the other hand, there are many others with extensive technical training who struggle to make their writing seem relevant to the way most ordinary people experience music.
"In this book, Andrea Mazzariello has wrestled to address both of these poles of concern, and to me it feels incredibly fresh. As I read his first few chapters, I thought to myself 'yes, this is how music lives in both your body and your mind.'... Mazzariello strives to remain radically vulnerable to the ways in which music can surprise even the most educated listener. The simplicity of this perspective is disarming because his erudition is evident. This reflects perfectly what it is like to know him in real life, and now we can all be richer for it."--Adam Sliwinski
"Writing about Mazzariello's book is a bit like writing about music; it is elusive, yet clearly communicates; it is in our hands, not so unlike an LP, and we can feel its contents, believe that we can own it, but it slips through our fingers like sand, leaving a textured impression. And, as with our experiences with music, we learn and grow and feel through its embrace. This is poetic, personal, and full of humanity, it is beautifully written, warm, but with sharp edges, not so unlike the combination of vinyl and diamond-tipped needles that, together, bring 'the music itself' to us, with the aid of our ever-learning hands. It is a love song, indeed, for all of us who love music."--Dan Trueman
"A kaleidoscopic blend of ethnomusicology, memoir, philosophy, and poetry, this lyrically soaring meditation on music and identity invites us to reflect, ever so gently, on the ways and reasons we engage with music, love it deeply, and strive endlessly to grok its ineffability with words. Mazzariello's words, chosen with insight, elegance, and grit, add to this human endeavor with unique and unforgettable illumination."--Sarah Kirkland Snider
About the Author
Andrea Mazzariello (b. 1978) is a composer, performer, writer, and teacher. He works at the intersections of text and sound, popular and art music, traditional playing technique and one-man-band-inspired performance physiology. His concert music has been performed by leading contemporary music ensembles, including Sō Percussion, Mobius Percussion, NOW Ensemble, and Newspeak, and presented at Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, and San Francisco's Center for New Music, among many others. SEAMUS and New Amsterdam Records have released recordings of his electronic and chamber music. Active as a performer, he plays a unique and continually evolving instrumental setup, including keyboard, drum set, voice, and electronics. He has contributed essays to Albany Records, the Baryshnikov Arts Center Stories series, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music blog, and Princeton University Press' forthcoming The Pocket Instructor: Writing. The Operating System published his first book, ONE MORE REVOLUTION, in 2017. He completed his Ph.D. in Music Composition at Princeton University, writing on the vinyl resurgence and its connection to our ideas of physicality and abstraction in music analysis, and then joined the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program, where he taught several first-year music- centered writing seminars. Currently he teaches composition, music technology, and music fundamentals as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College, directs the composition program at the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, and runs One More Revolution Records.
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