Joni Mitchell : new critical readings / edited by Ruth Charnock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charnock, Ruth, editor.

Series:

Popular music.

Popular music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, Joni.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Mitchell, Joni--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Contents:

Preface: Everything's backwards, or Joni, chase that butterfly! / Ruth Charnock

Part 1, "The breadth of extremities" : voice, instrument, feeling. "The hexagram of the heavens, the strings of my guitar" : Joni Mitchell's crip virtuosity / Matthew J. Jones. "Oh borderline" : Joni Mitchell's aging voice as a site of queer resistance / Emily Baker. "Both sides, now" : voice, affect, and thirdness / Joanne Winning. "Dreams and false alarms" : melancholy in the work of Joni Mitchell / Anne Hilker

Part 2, "The only (black) man in the room?" : Mitchell's milieu. In search of lost chords : Joni Mitchell, The last waltz, and the refuge of the road / Gustavus Stadler. "Tar Baby and the Great White Wonder" : Joni Mitchell's pimp game / Eric Lott. Tangled up in blue : the shadow of Dylan and stylistic swerves in early-Seventies Joni Mitchell / Howard Wilde

Part 3, "Busy being free" : love, time, feminism. "Here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock" : Joni Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, and irritable feminism / Pamela Thurschwell. Hollow : "Cactus tree" and the signs of freedom / Peter Coviello. "The only thing that's never going away" : still listening to Blue / Ruth Charnock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501332098

1501332090

OCLC:

1031339150

Publisher Number:

99980507893