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Exploring U2 : is this rock 'n' roll? : essays on the music, work, and influence of U2 / edited by Scott Calhoun.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- U2 (Musical group).
- Rock music--Ireland--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (467 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. In keeping with U2's own efforts to remove barriers that have long prevented dialogue for understanding and improving the human experience, this collection of essays covers such disciplines as literature, music, philosophy, and theology. The essays study U2's evolving use of source material in live performances, the layering of vocal effects in signature songs, the crafting of a spiritual
- Contents:
- Foreword: U2-Contents and Discontents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Eighteen Years of Dawning; Chapter 1: Boy to Man; Chapter 2: My Voyage of Discovery; Chapter 3: Potent Crossroads; Chapter 4: The Authentic Self in ?Paul Ricoeur and U2; Part II: Don't Expect, Suggest; Chapter 5: Vocal Layering as Deconstruction ?and Reinvention in U2; Chapter 6: "Bullet the Blue Sky" ?as an Evolving Performance; Chapter 7: U2: An Elevated Brand; Chapter 8: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure; Part III: Take This Soul; Chapter 9: Playing the Tart; Chapter 10: Where Leitourgia Has No Name
- Chapter 11: Bono v. Nick Cave Re: JesusChapter 12: Fallen Angels in the Hands of U2; Part IV: When I Look at the World; Chapter 13: Bono's Rhetoric of the Auspicious; Chapter 14: Boy, Baby, and Bomb; Chapter 15: All That We Can't Leave Behind; Chapter 16: Across the Universe; Bibliography; About the Editor and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-43919-6
- 979-82-16-29750-5
- 1-283-28366-2
- 9786613283665
- 0-8108-8158-6
- OCLC:
- 759114772
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