Librarian recommendations needed!  

Please encourage your librarian at your local, school, or university library to order this book -- ultimately and ideally this may lead to an affordable paperback but even if it doesn't, it will get the book on the shelves if folks wish to have the opportunity to read it!  This is what libraries are for!

Babette Babich, The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology  (Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) ISBN: 1409449602

The publisher liked my cover design, featuring the same Franz von Stuck Orpheus on the cover of their quarterly catalogue when the book was first released.

Details for ordering from Ashgate.  There is also an e-book available -- check with Ashgate for details.

Details at Amazon.com -- they also have a slightly cheaper kindle version, but this is not suitable for libraries...

The Hallelujah Effect will be of interest to those interested in Leonard Cohen (yes!) and k.d lang (yes!) plus Nina Simone and Joan Baez and Jane Siberry and Madonna...

...but it will also interest those interested in music and desire, including gender....

....as well as media and music more generally in addition to those interested in Adorno on radio and music and sound...

....and that in addition, too, to Nietzsche, classical Greek tragedy, and Beethoven.
                                          

So it's three books in one!

"Cups" Tap Dance - Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect)

http://www.youtube.com/v/Q4FYNF02yEM?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=xe5Huu8F-Z7xA9XF3N9sWA&showinfo=1&feature=share

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

Beethoven Symphony No.9 Ode An die Freude (with German Lyrics) -[1/2]

The Hallelujah Effect -- Crossing Blogs

DrHGuy – Another Other Leonard Cohen Site On Life, Love, Lust, & Leonard Cohen

Cross-posting a blog post from a Leonard Cohen site by Allan Showalter that fans of Leonard Cohen should know about. Comments on the overpricing of The Hallelujah Effect are, alas, spot on: the book is woefully overpriced, should be ordered for libraries and should be read there.  

I can say this as the author because I don't make anything from the book (I can't afford it myself: cost me a fortune to send a copy to Cohen himself -- and, remarkably, the publisher did not do that). 

Of course, that's why this is not only a book about Leonard Cohen, and his Hallelujah, about other Hallelujahs from the Bible to Handel and so on to Al Jolson, and a reading of the history of covers of Hallelujahs --- including the one singer almost everyone else, including Alan White, author of yet "another other" new book on Cohen's Hallelujah, manages to pass over in silence. That is the singer k.d.lang as her extraordinary voice illustrates the song as a song, the very musical power of Leonard Cohen's song. And she does it as musicians say, as even Leonard Cohen has said, like no one else. 

For this reason this book had to include three bonus or extra tracks, as it were, about the music industry, about Adorno's Current of Music, and about the centrality of Beethoven in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.

But maybe I should take a tip from the music industry and just issue the tracks all on their ownsome...

Metallica on ContraBass