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"""""This book is very engaging! Joel Heng Hartse gives a heartfelt apologia for writing about music. He suggests that the writer is not merely a commentator but an artist himself crafting and responding to the art with something new and creative. . . . An inspiring book. I strongly recommend it for music fans and musicologists alike."""" --Christopher Foley, Bass Player, Luxury """"I enjoy Joel's thoughtful perspective and casual profundities, of which there are plenty. But to me, what makes Joel a great music writer is the fact that he spent an entire semester abroad hunting down a single used CD from an obscure indie band. It's what any reasonable person would do."""" --Drew Dernavich, Cartoonist, The New Yorker """"This book is about the love of music. At times, it is a love poem to music. . . . At other times, it is an exploration of our humanity, why and how we seek meaning through music. Above all, at a time when we are overwhelmed with musical content and noise, Heng Hartse's book grounds the reader with a tangible sense of the richness and wonder that is music."""" --Alan Noble, Oklahoma Baptist University """"In this wide-ranging book, the relation between criticism and composition . . . is set aside for something emergent and difficult. Something verging on ineffable. The lack of aesthetical pretension, the presence of real examples and first-person experience--all of this and more make reading this book, as a scholar and musician, exciting and, dare I say, joyful. The meaning of the word finds itself 'worlded' within its own being, told to us in witty, warm prose."""" --Sam Rocha, University of British Columbia"

This book is very engaging! Joel Heng Hartse gives a heartfelt apologia for writing about music. He suggests that the writer is not merely a commentator but an artist himself crafting and responding to the art with something new and creative. . . . An inspiring book. I strongly recommend it for music fans and musicologists alike. --Christopher Foley, Bass Player, Luxury I enjoy Joel's thoughtful perspective and casual profundities, of which there are plenty. But to me, what makes Joel a great music writer is the fact that he spent an entire semester abroad hunting down a single used CD from an obscure indie band. It's what any reasonable person would do. --Drew Dernavich, Cartoonist, The New Yorker This book is about the love of music. At times, it is a love poem to music. . . . At other times, it is an exploration of our humanity, why and how we seek meaning through music. Above all, at a time when we are overwhelmed with musical content and noise, Heng Hartse's book grounds the reader with a tangible sense of the richness and wonder that is music. --Alan Noble, Oklahoma Baptist University In this wide-ranging book, the relation between criticism and composition . . . is set aside for something emergent and difficult. Something verging on ineffable. The lack of aesthetical pretension, the presence of real examples and first-person experience--all of this and more make reading this book, as a scholar and musician, exciting and, dare I say, joyful. The meaning of the word finds itself 'worlded' within its own being, told to us in witty, warm prose. --Sam Rocha, University of British Columbia

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Joel Heng Hartse is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. His music criticism has appeared in Paste, Geez, Image, the Stranger, Christianity Today, Christ & Pop Culture, and many other publications. He is author of Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll (Cascade, 2010) and co-author of Perspectives on Teaching English at Colleges and Universities in China (2015). He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and sons.

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