{"product_id":"9781400075157","title":"Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSaid, Edward W.; Barenboim, Daniel\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/9\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues are an exchange between two prominent figures in   contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist,   and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle   East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said a Palestinian-American; they are   also close friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] genuine give-and-take between keen minds and open hearts. . . . The fluidity of their relationship, like musicians in an orchestra, is a compelling model for a world often splintered by dogma, ideology and hermetically sealed minds.” –\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As they range across music, literature, and society, they open   up many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place; music as a defiance   of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozart and Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno;   Wagner’s anti-Semitism; and the need for “artistic solutions” to the predicament   of the Middle East—something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab and   Israeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful and spontaneous, \u003cb\u003eParallels   and Paradoxes\u003c\/b\u003e is a virtuosic collaboration.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412819378431,"sku":"9781400075157","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781400075157_s600x595.jpg?v=1781542134","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781400075157","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}