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标题：Review of Try Whistling This: Writings About Music
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作者：Andrew Ford
期刊名称：Transnational Literature
电子版ISSN：1836-4845
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Flinders Humanities Research Centre
摘要：One would have to be tone deaf not to thoroughly enjoy this book. The author, Andrew Ford is a composer, writer, and broadcaster, who presents The Music Show on the ABC Radio National. The collection in this book consists of a few reviews, essays and scripts from his radio series Music and Fashion. He regards himself as primarily a composer, and that is his justification for writing about other people’s music. It is with Music and Fashion that the book begins, and this first chapter raises many of the questions that are examined in the chapters that follow. What makes some music fashionable; what is the difference between art and entertainment, if there is a difference; or how much a listener may be influenced by publicity and the fame of a performer. Ford concludes that ‘great music can be fashionable and fashionable music can be great, but ultimately these concepts are unrelated’ (76).