The Art of Nick Cave :New Critical Essays ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :New Critical Essays

Publication series :1

Author: Baker   John  

Publisher: Intellect‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781841507811

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841506272

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781841506272

Subject: D9 Law;K81 Biography;K82 China;TK Energy and Power Engineering

Keyword: 能源与动力工程,法律,传记

Language: ENG

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Description

Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with The Birthday Party, the Bad seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave’s creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. Contributions come from a diverse group of scholars and experts who consider Cave’s work from different angles, drawing on historical, psychological, pedagogical and generic perspectives. Together, the resulting essays provide a lucid overview of Nick Cave’s work that will orient students and fans while offering fresh insights sure to deepen even expert perspectives.

Chapter

PART I: Cave, the Songwriter

Chapter 1: ‘Into My Arms’: Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman’s Call

Chapter 2: The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment

Chapter 3: ‘The College Professor Says It’: Using Nick Cave’s Lyrics in the University Classroom

Chapter 4: A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

PART II: Murder Ballads

Chapter 5: ‘Executioner-Style’: Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition

Chapter 6: In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave’s ‘Stagger Lee’

PART III: Film and Theatre

Chapter 7: ‘You Won’t Want the Moment to End’: Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport

Chapter 8: Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts … of the Civil Dead

Chapter 9: ‘People Just Ain’t No Good’: Nick Cave’s Noir Western, The Proposition

PART IV: Influences

Chapter 10: Nick Cave and Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy

Chapter 11: The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version

Chapter 12: Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart

PART V: Sacred and Profane

Chapter 13: ‘There is a Kingdom’: Nick Cave, Christian Artist?

Chapter 14: ‘The Time of Our Great Undoing’: Love, Madness, Catastrophe and the Secret Afterlife of Romanticism in Nick Cave’s Love Songs

Chapter 15: From ‘Cute Cunts’ to ‘No Pussy’: Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred

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