Moving to Higher Ground

出版者:Random House

作者:Wynton Marsalis

页数:208

出版时间:2008-09-02

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400060788

具体描述

"In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America's greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life-from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense."-Wynton Marsalis In this beautiful book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis explores jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating-for individuals, communities, and nations. Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and through stories about his life and the lessons he has learned from other music greats, he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others, changing self, family, and community for the better. At the heart of jazz is the expression of personality and individuality, coupled with an ability to listen to and improvise with others. Jazz as an art-and as a way to move people and nations to higher ground-is at the core of this unique, illuminating, and inspiring book, a master class on jazz and life by a brilliant American artist. Advance praise for "Moving to Higher Ground" "An absolute joy to read. Intimate, knowledgeable, supremely worthy of its subject. In addition to demolishing mediocre, uniformed critics, "Moving to Higher Ground" is a meaningful contribution to music scholarship."-Toni Morrison "I think it should be in every bookstore, music store, and school in the country." -Tony Bennett "Jazz, for Wynton Marsalis, is nothing less than a search for wisdom. He thinks as forcefully, and as elegantly, as he swings. When he reflects on improvisation, his subject is freedom. When he reflects on harmony, his subject is diversity and conflict and peace. When he reflects on the blues, his subject is sorrow and the mastery of it-how to be happy without being blind. There is philosophy in Marsalis's trumpet, and in this book. Here is the lucid and probing voice of an uncommonly soulful man."-Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, "The New Republic" "Wynton Marsalis is absolutely the person who should write this book. Here he is, as young as morning, as fresh as dew, and already called one of the jazz greats. He is not only a seer and an exemplary musician, but a poet as well. He informs us that jazz was created, among other things, to expose the hypocrisy and absurdity of racism and other ignorances in our country. Poetry was given to human beings for the same reason. This book could be called "How Love Can Change Your Life," for there could be no jazz without love. By love, of course, I do not mean mush, or sentimentality. Love can only exist with courage, and this book could not be written without Wynton Marsalis's courage. He has the courage to make powerful music and to love the music so, that he willingly shares its riches with the entire human family. We are indebted to him." -Maya Angelou

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这本书给我的冲击，在于它彻底颠覆了我对“进步”二字的定义。我以前总觉得进步就是不断向上爬，不断获取更多，但读完之后，我开始意识到，很多时候，真正的飞跃来自于一种策略性的“向下扎根”或者“横向拓展”。作者在描绘那些看似停滞不前的阶段时，笔触尤为细腻，他描绘了那种在低谷期如何进行内部重构的必要性。这部分内容非常治愈，因为它承认了“慢”的价值，承认了积累过程中的孤独和不确定性。我尤其欣赏作者对“环境塑造个体”的强调。我们总是倾向于将成功归因于个体的意志力，但这本书冷静地指出，如果你所处的环境无法支撑你的目标，那么再强的意志力也可能只是徒劳的消耗。它引导我重新审视我的人际圈子和日常物理空间，思考它们是否在无形中限制了我的发展潜力。这种将焦点从内部“努力”转移到外部“结构”的视角转换，是我近年来阅读中收获最大的洞见之一。阅读体验是缓慢而深刻的，仿佛在进行一场深度的思维排毒。