A book which asks a lot of pertinent questions and then goes in search of anwers.
'The Sound of Being Human explores, in detail, why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is Jude's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five; concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent; sky-rocket her relationships, both real and imagined, in the flushes of early womanhood, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood, and look to the future.'
What music means to the individual and the human tribe.' Stuart Maconie
A sad book in some ways. But a resonant one. About the healing and restorative and central role of music in evrything we do. 'Let me know who gets to Number One.' An early mesage from a father to his daughter, Jude Rogers the authir of the book shortly before he dies. The connections we make with people over music or sporting events. The way that football players combine together to score goals and musicians who come together in studios in the service of a song. Songs that carry you through life in expressions of desire, despair, recovery and resolution.' 'Songs that still keep us stimilated, soothe, alert, afloat.' ABBA pin my life have always been very good for that.
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