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Cultural seeds : essays on the work of Nick Cave / edited by Karen Welberry and Tanya Dalziell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ashgate popular and folk music series.
- Ashgate popular and folk music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cave, Nick, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.
- Cave, Nick.
- Rock music--Social aspects.
- Rock music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman project (2008), Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive appraisals of hi
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Cultural Contexts; 1 The Light Within: The Twenty-first-Century Love Songs of Nick Cave; 2 Planting Seeds; 3 Nick Cave and the Australian Language of Laughter; 4 Nick Cave, Dance Performance and the Production and Consumption of Masculinity; PART II Intersections; 5 An Audience for Antagonism: Nick Cave and Doomed Celebrity; 6 And the Ass Saw the Angel: A Novel of Fragment and Excess; 7 Red Right Hand: Nick Cave and the Cinema; 8 Grinderman: All Stripped Down; PART III The Sacred
- 9 From Mutiny to Calling upon the Author: Cave's Religion10 Oedipus Wrecks: Cave and the Presley Myth; 11 Fleshed Sacred: The Carnal Theologies of Nick Cave; 12 The Moose and Nick Cave: Melancholy, Creativity and Love Songs; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-15625-0
- 1-315-57536-1
- 1-317-15624-2
- 1-282-24358-6
- 9786612243585
- 0-7546-9466-6
- 9781315575360
- OCLC:
- 432995846
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