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Did an angel whisper in your ear?/ And hold you close and take away your fear?music scribe Margaret Moser, who sat with the singer's ex Clyde Woodward during his"," listening to his favorite songs. . In her memoir, Williams links the lines straight to the hospital scene with an unflinching, matter-of-fact style, no embellishment needed.
"I find that the less I say about music, the better," writes Henry Threadgill at the halfway mark of his memoir. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jazz Master award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Pulitzer Prize, the Chicago-born composer and saxophonist/flautist actually spends a great many pages talking about music – what it means, how it works, the ways he innovates creative expression.
Sinéad O'Connor's cutting vocals have long been overshadowed by her public image. UT Press' recent Music Matters series release reckons with the Irish powerhouse's dismissal as an unhinged artist. A survivor of child abuse, O'Connor bled vulnerability when MTV eyes were first cast on her, and author Allyson McCabe paints her as a knight who stomped on the boxes that curtailed female pop stars.
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