Equally relevant to musicians, scholars, and fans, Loving Music Till It Hurts is a consciousness-raising book with razor-sharp analyses of how people justify and defend their musical opinions. A must-read.
William Cheng is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. His books include Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford, 2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (Michigan, 2016), Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford, 2019), and Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford, 2019, coedited with Gregory Barz). He serves as a coeditor of University of Michigan Press's "Music & Social
Justice" series.