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"In a sense, the song of the bird in the title of this short, hugely thoughtful and fascinating book is a measure of the gap between nature and human culture. . . . Rothenberg strikes me as bonkers, but also brilliant, and his book expands on this musical challenge to ask key questions relevant to anyone engaged with the natural world."
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingales song? Its a strange and unsettling sort of compositionan eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, whistles, twitters, and gurgles. At times it is mellifluous, at others downright guttural. It is a rhythmic assault, always eluding capture. What happens if you decide to join in? As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingales song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlinlongtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heardand invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each others sounds. Through dialogue, travel records, sonograms, tours of Berlins city parks, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy, a music impossible for any one species to make alone. In the tradition of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Invention of Nature, Rothenberg has written a provocative and accessible book to attune us ever closer to the natural environment around us. Rothenberg takes us to Berlins urban landscape to discover and engage with one of natures most beautiful and celebrated sounds, the nightingales song. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780226467184
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