{"product_id":"9781760640118","title":"The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies","description":"An illuminating history of the song for every kind of music lover.\n\nOften today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony: apparently, they’re all songs.\n\nBut they’re not. From Sia to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, a song is a specific musical form. It’s not so much that they all have verses and choruses – though most of them do – but that they are all relatively short and self-contained; they have beginnings, middles and ends; they often have a single point of view, message or story; and, crucially, they unite words and music. Thus, a Schubert song has more in common with a track by Joni Mitchell or Rihanna than with one of Schubert’s own symphonies.\n\n\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003eThe Song Remains the Same \u003c\/span\u003etraces these connections through seventy-five songs from different cultures and times: love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop hits; \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003e‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ \u003c\/span\u003eto\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003e ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Jerusalem’\u003c\/span\u003e to \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003e‘Jolene’. \u003c\/span\u003eUnpicking their inner workings makes familiar songs strange again, explaining and restoring the wonder, joy (or possibly loathing) the reader experienced on first hearing.","brand":"La Trobe University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48819901792491,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":51.67,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781760640118-1.jpg?v=1781701479","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781760640118","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}