In Singing He Composed A Song

John is the teenage terror of his northern industrial town. With his friends, James and Simon, he is a disciple of depression and ennui. His world is a haze of smoke and heavy metal, anchored by poverty. Every day he steps closer to the edge. When an altercation at school leads to a bad encounter with the police and involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward, John finds himself alone in the hospital Quiet Room with time to think, to reflect on who he is, how he got here, and how to move forward--whether he wants to or not. John is a successful musician. Music is his passion, his solace, and the place he belongs. Looking for the lyric in the noise, he sifts through his life, through layers of experience overlapping like chords. He searches for himself in his psychiatric records, in the voices of his friends, his teachers, the cops, his doctors, and in his own memories. Rearranging the layers into some sort of music, he tries to find a true account of himself. In Singing, He Composed a Song is a masterful experimental novel that blends poetry and fiction, past and future, word and image, to radically question how language and authority intertwine to shape the ways we view ourselves. It finds the music--however dissonant--that can't be held behind steel doors or hidden in the pages of your file.

The definite origins of OPM in one book In 2017, economic journalist and Original Pilipino Music obsessive Tina Arceo-Dumlao published Himig at Titik: A Tribute to OPM Songwriters, a limited-edition collection of interviews with the progenitors of OPM, the songwriters of the 1970s and the 1980s, from Manila Sound to all the way to Socio-Political Themes Redux, her love letter to the music she grew up with. Now Inquirer Books presents a revised and updated e-book version of Himig at Titik: A Tribute to OPM Songwriters, with rare full-color photographs, including exclusive interviews with Hotdog’s Dennis Garcia, Sen. Tito Sotto, Pepe Smith, Sampaguita, Freddie Aguilar, Lolita Carbon, Willy Cruz, National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab, Danny Javier, Jim Paredes, Jose Mari Chan, Rey Valera, Vehnee Saturno, Odette Quesada, Joey Ayala, Gary Granada, Gary Valenciano and many others. Himig at Titik is an e-book that celebrates the music that is truly sariling atin. Part of the proceeds will benefit the PhilPop Foundation. Himig at Titik: A Tribute to OPM Songwriters by Tina Arceo-Dumlao is available for P695 ($14) from Amazon, Google Books, Apple Books, Lazada and the Inquirer Shop.

A study of the phenomenon of guitar poetry, a type of acoustic protest music that flourished in the Soviet Union between the post-Stalinist and Gorbachev years.

Includes optional instrumental accompaniments and international phonetic alphabet pronunciation guide.

divdivIn the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery reform. This engaging book is the first to tell the full story of the Hutchinsons, how they contributed to the transformation of American culture, and how they originated the marketable American protest song. /DIVdivThrough concerts, writings, sheet music publications, and books of lyrics, the Hutchinson Family Singers established a new space for civic action, a place at the intersection of culture, reform, religion, and politics. The book documents the Hutchinsons’ impact on abolition and other reform projects and offers an original conception of the rising importance of popular culture in antebellum America./DIV/DIV