Research Catalog

Title

For the love of it : amateuring and its rivals / Wayne Booth.

Author

Booth, Wayne C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

x, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• For the Love of It is the story not only of the intimate struggle between Wayne Booth and his cello but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and payoff and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. This fundamental opposition leads Booth into diverse meditations on how amateuring relates to all other loves and pleasures.
• In his celebration of how the amateur's laboring can blossom, he thus joins a long line of thinkers who have puzzled over the meanings of "fun," "work," and "love."

Subjects

• Booth, Wayne C
• Cellists > United States > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.

Contents

Overture: What Is an Amateur and Why Amateuring Matters -- First Movement: The Courtship. 1. Getting It into My Bones. 2. Seduced by the Cello. 3. Amateuring and Rival Pleasures -- Second Movement: The Marriage. 4. The Zen of Thumb Position Maintenance. 5. Teaching the Love. 6. Meditations of an Aging Pupil. Interlude: The Amateur Writer Quarrels with the Amateur Player -- Third Movement: The Love Fulfilled. 7. Amateur Hours: Disastrous, Not Too Bad, and Just Plain Glorious. 8. Hearing with Your Body: How Playing Transforms Listening. 9. The Three Gifts -- Fourth Movement: Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony. 10. "Making It," Selling Out, and the Future of Amateuring. 11. The Music of the Spheres - But What Spheres?

ISBN

0226065855 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98042920

OCLC

• 39810855
• ocm39810855

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries