{"product_id":"parallels-and-paradoxes-explorations-in-music-and-society-9781400075157","title":"Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society","description":"These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said a Palestinian-American; they are also close friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs they range across music, literature, and society, they open up many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place; music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozart and Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner's anti-Semitism; and the need for \"artistic solutions\" to the predicament of the Middle East--something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab and Israeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful and spontaneous, \u003cb\u003eParallels and Paradoxes\u003c\/b\u003e is a virtuosic collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400075157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Edward W. Said, Daniel Barenboim","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205023072437,"sku":"9781400075157","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5f3e79b3-791f-4c6e-bc5f-250c2a9a827c.jpg?v=1698127667","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/parallels-and-paradoxes-explorations-in-music-and-society-9781400075157","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}