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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste: 52 (33 1/3)

Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste: 52 (33 1/3)

by Carl Wilson (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

This book is a riveting investigation of what it means to love music and what it means to hate music, both of good and bad taste.Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Celine Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan, and explores how we define ourselves in the light of what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: 23 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 082642788X
ISBN 13: 9780826427885

Media Reviews
The 33 1/3 of pocket books ... are superb little volumes devoted to classic albums. What unites them is not so much their subject as the standard of the writing and imagination that the authors have brought to their task... every one I've read has been well worth the attention. Wilson's approach to Celine Dione, however, stands out ... Clever and witty.
Keith Bruce, The Herald (Glasgow), Saturday 8th March 2008.
Author Bio
Carl Wilson is a writer and editor in Toronto at the Globe and Mail. He has written a weekly music column there for more than four years. One of his columns was reprinted in Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2002 volume, edited by Jonathan Lethem.