Spike Comp: Music and Fiction
JA
October 01
We have six double passes to give away to Topology, a wonderful five-piece group featuring Bernard Hoey (viola), Christa Powell (violin), John Babbage (saxophone), Kylie Davidson (piano) and Robert Davidson (bass). Their Melbourne show ‘Corridors of Power’, a concert on politics, philosophy and contemporary life, kicks off at 8pm on Wednesday 21 October at the Chapel off Chapel in Prahran (for more details, go here).
In this spirit, we’re launching another Spike comp on music in fiction. Just name your favourite book which draws on the themes of music and song, and tell us a bit about why you liked it. Just think of Tim Winton’s Dirt Music (‘Anything you could play on a verandah. You know, without electricity. Dirt music’), Judy Bridgewater’s fictional love song ‘Never Let Me Go’ in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel of the same name, the tender mentorship between Herr Keller and Paul in Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro, the aging artist and his estranged, cello prodigy daughter in Nam Le’s ‘Meeting Elise’…
As always, please make you list either a website or email with your comments. The comp runs from now until the end of Wednesday 7 October, with winners announced Thursday.
For a sneak peek at Topology live, go here.
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Comments
06 Oct 09 at 17:46
James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'.
Jazz-playing, drug-using Sonny and his upright brother, two
young black men who've found different ways of negotiating life in
1950s America, begin to hear one another.
07 Oct 09 at 12:18
I can't go but please let me recommend to you Phonogram, which is my favourite comic at the moment. It's based on the premise that music is magic. The first series is a bit esoteric, but the second is excellent (which revolves around nine people and one night in an indie London club), and says many great things about music and our relationship to it.
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