David Rothenberg, Author . Basic $27.50 (287p) ISBN 978-0-465-07128-9
Biologists know that whale songs, which may carry for hundreds of miles, change over time and are passed on from one generation to the next, but they don't fully understand what these complex sounds are for. Philosopher and musician Rothenberg (
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David Rothenberg, Author . Basic $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-07135-7
As science explores the frontiers of the measurable, it begins to intrude into the realm of art, and this book occupies that uneasy zone. Rothenberg, a musician and philosopher, became fascinated with the similarities between human music and birds
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David Rothenberg. Bloomsbury Press, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-216-8
While many people are happy to simply appreciate nature’s beauty, Rothenberg seeks to understand why beauty exists in the first place, and what that means to our existence. Evolution and mutation determine what features are passed on in each species,
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David Rothenberg. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00521-2
Following books about bird music (Why Birds Sing) and whale music (Thousand Mile Song), Rothenberg, a jazz musician and professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, proposes that the “wild percussion sounds” of...
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