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have followed Jude as a music journalist for years, since the much missed Word magazine, but this goes above and beyond, Lyrical and immensely moving, she explores in detail and depth just why music does what it does to and for us, The only problem is that it has taken me ages to read as I have to listen again to each song mentioned, and frequently break off to tell my other half of yet another fascinating fact.
Could not recommend this highly, Takes you through Judes childhood in a beautifully musical way, Teaches us just how important music is to us at all ages,/This is a beautifully written book that captures the authors life events reflected in songs, It's moving, insightful and wonderfully reflective,

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives, Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have, It's a personal journey which
Access The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives Documented By Jude Rogers Accessible As Digital
becomes universal, Fascinating' Ian Rankin

'Moving and absorbing, The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir, analysis, anecdote and personal chronicle into a mosaic that evokes what music means to the individual and the human tribe.
A candid, beautiful read' Stuart Maconie

The Sound of Being Human explores, in detail, why music plays such a deep rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days.
At its heart is Jude's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent sky rocket her relationships, both real and imagined, in the flushes of early womanhood, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood, and look to the future.

Shaped around twelve songs, ranging from ABBA's 'Super Trouper' to Neneh Cherry's 'Buffalo Stance', Kraftwerk's 'Radioactivity' to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' 'Heat Wave', the book combines memoir and historical, scientific and cultural enquiry to show how music can shape different versions of ourselves how we rely upon music for comfort, for epiphanies, and for sexual and physical connection how we grow with songs, and songs grow inside us, helping us come to terms with grief, getting older and powerful memories.
It is about music's power to help us tell our own stories, whatever they are, and make them sing,

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