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Celine Dion "Let's Talk About Love" (33 1/3) (33 1/3) (33 1/3)
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Product Description
This book is a riveting investigation of what it means to love music and what it means to hate music, both of good and bad taste.Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Celine Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #155455 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Carl Wilson is a writer and editor in Toronto at the Globe and Mail. He has written a weekly music column there for more than four years. One of his columns was reprinted in Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2002 volume, edited by Jonathan Lethem.
Customer Reviews
A memorable book about an unmemorable album
I can't imagine that many people will click through to this page unless they're fans of Celine Dion, yet few people who like Dion are likely to be interested in this book, which is by far the best of the fine 33 1/3 series so far. I devoured it, despite never having consciously heard a single Celine Dion song (I just listened to her Titanic song, which is discussed here, and I already have no memory of it, she's that kind of singer). This is an engrossing, wide ranging book about why people like the things they do, discussing all sorts of subjects from kitsch and Eurovision to various philosophers/sociologists I'd not come across (eg Pierre Bourdieu) before. I picked this up on the back of a rave in the excellent Said The Gramophone MP3 blog. An outstanding contribution to an excellent series.
