John Berger's Ways of Seeing was first published in 1972. It looked at visual images and how they shape us. In Ways of Hearing Ben Thompson does a similar thing for music - albeit in a non-sociological, highly subjective, fairly irreverent and extremely entertaining manner. He explores the role of music in the mediums of radio, TV, film, literature and video, and interviews a wildly disparate bunch of musicians and djs, from Brian Eno, John Peel, Captain Beefheart and Neil Young, to Lee Perry, Sir Cliff Richard, the Chemical Brothers and Mercury Rev. 'As a public airing of private pleasures delivered with a distinctive critical voice, it's consistently engaging and infectiously readable' Julian Cowley, The Wire
- ISBN10 0753812894
- ISBN13 9780753812891
- Publish Date 1 November 2001 (first published 1 February 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 December 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English