(Download free pdf) Astonishing Legends The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool
❀ Michael Segell ❀
| #486685 in Books | Picador USA | 2006-08-22 | 2006-08-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.15 x.4 x5.53l,.70 | File Name: 0312425570 | 352 pages | Picador USA
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Sax created one "mean machine"|By Cato|One devil of a fine book. Adolph Sax created a "mean machine" when he created the saxophone. I've played clarinet for about six decades; and in high school and college I played tenor sax in dance bands. Last summer I decided to buy a soprano sax and found it to be a mean monster, despite its smaller size. Working hard for months I was beg|From Publishers Weekly|The saxophone has come to be synonymous with 20th-century music, not to mention all things cool: jazz, cocktail lounges, hip cats and the like. Segell (Standup Guy: Manhood After Feminism) traces the instrument back to its eccentri
The 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell's wonderfully researched, beautifully told The Devil's Horn. Beginning with "a sound never heard before," Segell's portrait follows the iconographic instrument as it is lauded for its sensuality, then outlawed for its influence, and finally credited with changing the face of popular culture. A deeply personal story of one man's love for music-making, a universal story of artistic a...
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