Loving Music Till It Hurts explores how people's intense love and protectiveness of music can lead to interpersonal conflicts, societal injustices, and violence. But how might we love music, even embrace it as vital to human thriving, without weaponizing this love? What can we do when loving music and loving people seem at odds?

• Acknowledgments


• Prelude: Loving Music And Loving People


• Chapter One: Misjudgments Of Humanity


• Chapter Two: Princes And Paupers


• Chapter Three: Moral Masquerades


• Interlude: Loving Musicology Till It Hurts


• Chapter Four: Feeling Overcome


• Chapter Five:The Worst You've Ever Sounded


• Chapter Six: Jordan Russell Davis


• Postlude: Songs Without Words


• Notes


• Works Cited


• Index

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.