UCSC Press Release: Booksigning celebrates work by former Grateful Dead drummer

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February 24, 2000
Contact: Barbara McKenna (831) 459-2495; mckenna@cats.ucsc.edu
Booksigning celebrates new book by UC Santa Cruz professor and former Grateful Dead drummer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What: Booksigning
When: Thursday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz
For more information: (831) 423-0900
SANTA CRUZ, CA--"It's the vibration, stupid." That's the way drummer and author Mickey Hart jokingly explains the transformative power of music. But Hart, who played with the Grateful Dead until the band broke up, and longtime collaborator Fredric Lieberman, a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have far more eloquent things to say on the subject. In fact, as they worked on numerous other projects together, the two discovered that there have been many people with profound and inspirational things to say about the magic of music.
That realization was the inspiration for their latest collaboration, Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music, published last November by Grateful Dead Music. On Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., a booksigning will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz to celebrate the release of the book. Hart and Lieberman will speak and sign copies of their book. Bookshop Santa Cruz is located in dowton Santa Cruz at 1520 Pacific Ave. For more information on the booksigning, call (831) 423-0900.
Spirit into Sound is a collection of quotes and thoughts on the power of music that spans millennia and mindsets--featuring everyone from Ayatollah Khomeini to Gustav Mahler to Janis Joplin to Plato, who says, "Music training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul."
"These wonderful images were full of light and wisdom, somehow speaking the unspeakable, touching the untouchable," Hart writes of the quotes they gleaned for their book. "In this collection, which is laced with some thoughts and recollections of our own, we try to present the wonder of music in the words of those touched by its magic."
"Spirit into Sound is no Bartlett of music but rather a collection of striking epiphanies that we ran across over the past 18 years while working on the earlier books and other projects," Lieberman says. "We think of the book as a conversation with many musicians and musical thinkers across time and space."
Throughout their years of collaboration the authors sought out quotes on music for their own inspiration. When they found one that struck a chord, they would write it down on an index card and post it on the wall of their study. As the collection grew, the cards snaked across the wall becoming an entity that Hart and Lieberman affectionately call the "anaconda."
Spirit into Sound includes roughly 400 of the most interesting and inspiring quotes from the anaconda, but also includes the commentary of the authors. "After we selected the quotes, we sat down together and discussed their meaning and relevance," Lieberman explains. "From these discussions, I wrote a series of short essays that appear throughout the book, commenting on the quotes and sometimes connecting them to Mickey's life as a performer."
This is the third book Lieberman and Hart have co-authored. Their others are Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion (also authored by Jay Stevens and published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1990) and Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991). They have also collaborated on numerous recording projects, including The World--a series of nearly 30 recordings released through Rykodisc--and a three-CD package titled The Bali Sessions.
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Editor's note: To interview Mickey Hart or for a copy of Spirit into Sound, contact Jessica Brenner at (212) 333-7728, ext. 103, or email jessica@susanblondinc.com. To interview Fredric Lieberman, contact him by e-mail at: gagaku@cats.ucsc.edu.
You can also visit the web page: http://mhart.com/Pages/sispgs/sisintro.html
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February 24, 2000 Contact: Barbara McKenna (831) 459-2495; mckenna@cats.ucsc.edu Booksigning celebrates new book by UC Santa Cruz professor and former Grateful Dead drummer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What: Booksigning When: Thursday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. Where: Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz For more information: (831) 423-0900 SANTA CRUZ, CA--"It's the vibration, stupid." That's the way drummer and author Mickey Hart jokingly explains the transformative power of music. But Hart, who played with the Grateful Dead until the band broke up, and longtime collaborator Fredric Lieberman, a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have far more eloquent things to say on the subject. In fact, as they worked on numerous other projects together, the two discovered that there have been many people with profound and inspirational things to say about the magic of music. That realization was the inspiration for their latest collaboration, Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music, published last November by Grateful Dead Music. On Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., a booksigning will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz to celebrate the release of the book. Hart and Lieberman will speak and sign copies of their book. Bookshop Santa Cruz is located in dowton Santa Cruz at 1520 Pacific Ave. For more information on the booksigning, call (831) 423-0900. Spirit into Sound is a collection of quotes and thoughts on the power of music that spans millennia and mindsets--featuring everyone from Ayatollah Khomeini to Gustav Mahler to Janis Joplin to Plato, who says, "Music training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul." "These wonderful images were full of light and wisdom, somehow speaking the unspeakable, touching the untouchable," Hart writes of the quotes they gleaned for their book. "In this collection, which is laced with some thoughts and recollections of our own, we try to present the wonder of music in the words of those touched by its magic." "Spirit into Sound is no Bartlett of music but rather a collection of striking epiphanies that we ran across over the past 18 years while working on the earlier books and other projects," Lieberman says. "We think of the book as a conversation with many musicians and musical thinkers across time and space." Throughout their years of collaboration the authors sought out quotes on music for their own inspiration. When they found one that struck a chord, they would write it down on an index card and post it on the wall of their study. As the collection grew, the cards snaked across the wall becoming an entity that Hart and Lieberman affectionately call the "anaconda." Spirit into Sound includes roughly 400 of the most interesting and inspiring quotes from the anaconda, but also includes the commentary of the authors. "After we selected the quotes, we sat down together and discussed their meaning and relevance," Lieberman explains. "From these discussions, I wrote a series of short essays that appear throughout the book, commenting on the quotes and sometimes connecting them to Mickey's life as a performer." This is the third book Lieberman and Hart have co-authored. Their others are Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion (also authored by Jay Stevens and published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1990) and Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991). They have also collaborated on numerous recording projects, including The World--a series of nearly 30 recordings released through Rykodisc--and a three-CD package titled The Bali Sessions. ##### Editor's note: To interview Mickey Hart or for a copy of Spirit into Sound, contact Jessica Brenner at (212) 333-7728, ext. 103, or email jessica@susanblondinc.com. To interview Fredric Lieberman, contact him by e-mail at: gagaku@cats.ucsc.edu. You can also visit the web page: http://mhart.com/Pages/sispgs/sisintro.html Press Release Home \| Search Press Releases \| Press Release Archive \| Services for Journalists
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