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Variations On A Theme: Forty Years Of Music, Memories, And Mistakes, Christopher John Stephens
Variations On A Theme: Forty Years Of Music, Memories, And Mistakes, Christopher John Stephens
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
How did music play a consistent role through various memories? In this memoir, I look at the sweet, the traumatic and troubling. I use specific songs as connections to lost loved ones. I pin the power of music to the loss of three important people in my life: my sister, father, and mother. Who were their musical touchstones? Did I share them? Did music run through them as it has always run through me? The memoir is sandwiched by a brief extended metaphor that props up the conceit that we are entering a live concert performance. It is billed as …