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Voices How A Great Singer Can Change Your LifeStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionI am pretty certain that we are only haunted by singing when we experience it not as an act of showing off but as an act of authorship, and then as a personal invasion; an invasion conducted privately, discreetly, loudly or quietly, at home or abroad, upright or lying down, tearfully or dry-it doesn't really matter where you experience it, or how, so long as the context is felt to be your own and that you listen to the singing not as a constituent of a mass consciousness but as the sole occupant of a single one. Psychologically alone. For what is singing, if not the creative assertion of individuality? And what is a voice, if not the most inimitable, indelible mark of an individual's individuality-the vessel, the ship sent out bravely over the horizon to export the fruits of our consciousness to places unknown. I am not entirely comfortable with admitting this, but I am quite sure that a disproportionate amount of my own socialization was accomplished through the agency of other people's singing. I have never told my mother this. Book jacket. |