Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 429 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781441156778
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1441156771
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9781501330582
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9780826416896
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1501330586
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9781441101587
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1441101586
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0826416896
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9780826429766
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0826429769
Content:
Imagining America : jazz, blues, country and the mythologies of the west -- What makes the Irish heart beat? : the Irishness of Van Morrison -- Get the words on the page : Van Morrison as a writer -- Caught one more time : themes and thematics -- Listening to the lion : Van Morrison as singer and musician -- On the burning ground : "liveness" and the recording studio -- Down the road : exile, place and the idea of eternal movement -- A three-cornered quartet : Van Morrison and the art of through-composition -- Postscript. Make it real one more time : Astral weeks live.
Content:
Neither biography nor chronological trawl, Hymns to the Silence is a detailed investigative study of Van Morrison's remarkable career. Peter Mills engages with his subject in a fresh and accessible style - often challenging the received wisdom. He looks at Morrison as a songwriter and specifically as an Irish writer, yet one who has worked primarily with American musical forms. Key themes and motifs are examined, as well as the ideas of place, home and exile and Morrison's periodic use of through-composition in major case studies of four of his best-regarded albums. Each section is full of det
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-410), discography (p. 411-418) , and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826416896
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mills, Peter, 1963- Hymns to the silence New York : Continuum, 2010
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501330582
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501330582?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyPopularMusic
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