In-Store: Mike Errico: Music, Lyrics, and Life w/ Alan Light
About this Event
Event guidelines:
- Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
- Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
- A signing will follow the talk.
- Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
- The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/opSzjjPcvSA
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The songwriting class you always wish you'd taken, taught by the professor you always wish you'd had.
With humor and empathy, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mike Errico unravels the mysteries of songwriting and the practicalities of a musical life in Music, Lyrics, and Life. It gathers the tools, prompts, and ideas that Errico has used to inspire students on campuses from Yale to Berklee to NYU, helping you cultivate creativity that’s intrinsic to who you are and undeniable to whoever is listening.
Alongside his own lessons, Errico interviews the writers, producers, and executives behind today’s biggest hits and investigates larger questions of creativity in conversations with innovative thinkers: astrophysicist Janna Levin explains the importance of repetition in both music and in the exploration of the universe; renowned painter John Currin praises the constraints of form, whether it's within a right-angled canvas or a three-minute pop song; bestselling author George Saunders unpacks the hidden benefit of writing, and revising, authentically; and much more. The result is that Music, Lyrics, and Life ends up revealing as much about the art of songwriting as it does about who we are, and where we may be going.
This is a book for songwriters, future content creators, music lovers, and anyone who wants to understand how popular art forms are able to touch us so deeply. Mike Errico has honed these lessons over years of writing, performing, teaching, and mentoring, and no matter where you are on your songwriting journey, Music, Lyrics, and Life will help you build a creative world that's both intrinsic to who you are, and undeniable to whoever is listening.
Mike Errico is a New York-based recording artist, professor, and writer who has built his name on the strength of critically acclaimed releases and extensive composition for film and TV. He has taught songwriting at universities including Yale, Wesleyan, and the New School. He is now Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where he was nominated for 2019’s David Payne-Carter Award for Excellence in Teaching. His first book, entitled Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter, is required reading in arts programs across the country.
Alan Light is an Emmy Award–winning music journalist and author. His most recent book is Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Other titles include The Holy or the Broken (which was adapted into an acclaimed documentary); Let’s Go Crazy; and biographies of Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, and the Beastie Boys. He was also the cowriter of bestselling memoirs by Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton. Light was a senior writer at Rolling Stone and the editor in chief of Vibe and Spin. He contributes frequently to The New York Times, Esquire, and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications, and he cohosts the podcast Sound Up!
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