Is There God after Prince? : Dispatches from an Age of Last Things.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coviello, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Is There God After Prince? is a book about loving things (books, songs, poems, people) in the shadow of looming disaster. Coviello's dazzling, highly personal essays address pieces of contemporary culture across an expansive range--songs by Prince, Joni Mitchell, SZA, and Phoebe Bridgers, writings by Sam Lipsyte, Paula Fox, Paul Beatty, and Dana Spiotta, movies like Heathers, TV shows like The Sopranos, as well as videos, poems, and other pop artefacts. Coviello places these artefacts back in the scenes where he first found them and traces what they did there, whether private (a kid's graduation, an aging parent, a divorce) or public (an election, a pandemic). Laced throughout is a queasy fascination with signs that so much is now coming to an end. It is on this terrain of endstrickenness, as Coviello calls it, that the book lingers, though it does so often in the mood of a startled joyousness, one that these pieces are at pains to understand. Cumulatively, Is There God After Prince? wants to be a model for what criticism can do--what it can sound like, how much sorrow and delight it can get into one place--in an era of Last Things"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sounds

Ceremonies

Kids

Sentences

Ends.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Coviello, Peter Is There God after Prince?

ISBN:

0-226-82809-3

OCLC:

1390922761