Sonata for Jukebox (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Geoffrey O’Brien
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Folk music or folk songs, Songs or songwriters, Entertaining or entertainers, Radio or radio broadcasting, Technology, Rock music, Popular music
“This is a book written in the presence of music,” observes Geoffrey O’Brien in the opening sentence of Sonata for Jukebox, an arresting, occasionally frustrating, and perhaps overlong rumination on the relationship between recorded music and the listener. Before long, it becomes clear that O’ Brien's has been a life lived in the presence of music, almost from the moment of birth. By that time, in 1948, his father, Joe O’Brien, had risen from the status of journeyman radio announcer to that of minor celebrity as the early-morning disc jockey on New York's WMCA, heard...
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