Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, The

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol sy'n archwilio'r modd y mae cerddoriaeth yn chwarae rhan greiddiol yn mywydau cymaint o bobl. Wrth galon y testun mae stori Jude ei hun; sut y bu caneuon o gymorth iddi ymgodymu â galar wedi iddi golli ei thad pan oedd yn bump oed a'i helpu i greu ei hunaniaeth fel oedolyn ifanc, unig; sut y cynorthwyodd hi i greu perthnasoedd, tyfu'n wraig, symud i fyd gwaith a dod yn rhiant.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This book explores why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives. At its heart is Jude's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five; concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent; sky-rocket her relationships, in the flushes of early womanhood, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood.

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Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Shaped around twelve songs, ranging from ABBA's 'Super Trouper' to Neneh Cherry's 'Buffalo Stance', Kraftwerk's '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, helping us come to terms with grief, getting older and powerful memories. It is about music's power to help us tell our own stories, whatever they are, and make them sing. 'Too 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. It's a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating' Ian Rankin