{"product_id":"the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives-9781474622929","title":"The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eToo often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. Its a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating Ian Rankin  Moving and absorbing  The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir  analysis  anecdote and personal chronicle into a mosaic that evokes what music means to the individual and the human tribe. A candid  beautiful read Stuart Maconie  The Sound of Being Human explores why music plays such a deep-rooted role in our lives from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is Judes own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father; concoct her own sense of self; sky-rocket her relationships  both real and imagined  propel her own journey into working life  adulthood and parenthood  and look to the future.  Shaped around twelve songs  ranging from ABBAs Super Trouper to Neneh Cherrys Buffalo Stance  Kraftwerks Radioactivity to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Heat Wave  the book combines memoir and historical  scientific and cultural enquiry to show how music can shape different versions of ourselves; how we rely upon music for comfort  for epiphanies  and for sexual and physical connection; how we grow with songs  and songs grow inside us. It is about musics power to help us tell our own stories  whatever they are  and make them sing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816110284853,"sku":"ByrdShop_1474622925","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781474622929.jpg?v=1785179634","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives-9781474622929","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}