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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810607703321

Titolo

Cultural seeds : essays on the work of Nick Cave / / edited by Karen Welberry and Tanya Dalziell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-317-15625-0

1-315-57536-1

1-317-15624-2

1-282-24358-6

9786612243585

0-7546-9466-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Altri autori (Persone)

WelberryKaren

DalziellTanya <1973->

Disciplina

782.42166092

Soggetti

Rock music - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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