02892nam 22006853u 450 991078485600332120230721030759.09786611430726(CKB)1000000000403705(EBL)408277(OCoLC)437247606(SSID)ssj0000279563(PQKBManifestationID)11210829(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279563(PQKBWorkID)10260567(PQKB)10800771(MiAaPQ)EBC408277(EXLCZ)99100000000040370520140609d2008|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor the Love of It[electronic resource] Amateuring and Its RivalsChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (252 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-06585-5 For the Love of It; Contents; Acknowledgments; OVERTURE What Is an Amateur and Why Amateuring Matters; FIRST MOVEMENT The Courtship; SECOND MOVEMENT The Marriage; THIRD MOVEMENT The Love Fulfilled; FOURTH MOVEMENT Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony; Glossary; Bibliography; IndexFor the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. ""If, in truth, Booth is an amateur player now in his fifth decade of amateuring, he is certainly not an amateur thinker about music and culture. . . . Would that all of us who think and teach and care about music could be so practical and profound at the same time.""-Peter Kountz, New York Times Book ReviewBooth, Wayne CBooth, Wayne CVioloncellists -- BiographyVioloncellists - United StatesVioloncellists -- United States -- BiographyCellistsUnited StatesBiographyMusic History & Criticism, InstrumentalHILCCMusicHILCCMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmHILCCBooth, Wayne C.Booth, Wayne C.Violoncellists -- Biography.Violoncellists - United States.Violoncellists -- United States -- Biography.CellistsMusic History & Criticism, InstrumentalMusicMusic, Dance, Drama & Film780787.4/092787.4092Booth Wayne C200520AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910784856003321For the Love of It3830655UNINA