Overview

Musicality for Modern Humans propels music appreciation into the 21st century. It's a self-enrichment book about the inner game of sound-based art for curious people who wish they could get deeper into music, including those who feel confused, overwhelmed, or intimidated. It's for anyone looking to shake up their habits, get free of algorithms, and listen for more in music across all genres and time periods. Musicality is about how composers and musicians manipulate tone, time, and timbre to reach us emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. It's also about how we respond and how alert we are to creativity and nuance. With perspective earned through 25 years of reporting and a lifetime of playing, Nashville-based writer and broadcaster Craig Havighurst resets our expectations, simplifies music theory, champions today's finest artists, and guides readers in a rethink of their musical diet. Humbly honoring the educational lineage of Leonard Bernstein, Wynton Marsalis, and Billy Taylor, Havighurst is a new voice filling the void in an age when the importance of musical literacy has been increasingly diminished in schools and the mainstream press. He guides us toward active, engaged listening with the goal of enhancing our well-being, our capacity for empathy, and our bonds to family and community. Readers of every level and background are invited to heed the words of Isaac Stern and make music ""an active part of natural life"" through discerning listening and a lifelong exploration of what moves us.

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Craig Havighurst has been playing music since he was seven and trying to figure out how and why music works for almost as long. For more than twenty-five years, he's been covering the art, tech, and commerce of music from Nashville, TN, as a reporter, author, filmmaker, and broadcaster. Since 2016, he's been Editorial Director for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5 FM, where he hosts the weekly interview show The String, covering ""culture, media, and American music."" He has reported for NPR, WPLN-FM, The Wall Street Journal, Acoustic Guitar, No Depression, and other magazines. As staff music writer at the daily Tennessean from 2000-2004, he won the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence In Country Music Journalism. Craig was the senior producer and co-host for Music City Roots, a nationally syndicated weekly live radio show and public TV series that ran from 2009 to 2018. He is also the author of Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, which documented for the first time how Nashville was transformed by one of the nation's greatest radio stations. He's the proud husband of Taylor and father of Lu.

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