{"id":1418,"date":"2021-09-24T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:49:51","slug":"cover-songs-book-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2021\/09\/24\/cover-songs-book-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover songs book progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing a few times that I&#8217;m writing a book on the philosophy of cover songs. I now have a complete draft, which moves it to the <em>rock tumbler<\/em> stage in which I roll around the prose to remove rough edges and add polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current working title is <em>A Philosophy of Cover Songs<\/em>. It tells potential readers what they&#8217;re in for, and it pretty much obligates anyone writing about philosophy and cover songs in the future to cite it. To be honest, though, I haven&#8217;t thought of anything better.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1418' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2021\/09\/24\/cover-songs-book-progress\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1418' title=' I&amp;#8217;m also not sure about the indefinite article. Maybe it should be &lt;em&gt;The Philosophy of Cover Songs&lt;\/em&gt; or even just &lt;em&gt;Philosophy of Cover Songs&lt;\/em&gt;.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it&#8217;s not done, it&#8217;s far enough along to share. If you&#8217;d like to see a draft, drop me a line.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1418' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2021\/09\/24\/cover-songs-book-progress\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1418' title=' Note that asking to see a draft doesn&amp;#8217;t obligate you to actually look at it or to formulate any feedback. It&amp;#8217;s cool either way.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mr-cup-fabien-barral-o6GEPQXnqMY-unsplash.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mr-cup-fabien-barral-o6GEPQXnqMY-unsplash.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mr-cup-fabien-barral-o6GEPQXnqMY-unsplash.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mr-cup-fabien-barral-o6GEPQXnqMY-unsplash.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/o6GEPQXnqMY\">Fabien Barral<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing a few times that I&#8217;m writing a book on the philosophy of cover songs. I now have a complete draft, which moves it to the rock tumbler stage in which I roll around the prose to remove rough edges and add polish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Covers songs book progress. 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