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1) The jazz ear: conversations over music

Author

Ratliff, Ben

Publisher

Times Books

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

2) Coltrane: the story of a sound

Author

Ratliff, Ben

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

3) Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty

Author

Ratliff, Ben

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

c2016.

Language

English

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What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers. --Publisher. What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across...

4) Run the song: writing about running about listening

Author

Ratliff, Ben

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Pub. Date

2025.

Language

English

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"Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff's runs started most days of the week for about a decade. Sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the pandemic, he began taking notes about what he listened to. He wondered if a body in motion, his body, was helping him to listen better to the motion in music. He runs through the woods, along the Hudson...