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Exploring U2
Is This Rock 'n' Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2
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2011
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Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. Edited by Scott Calhoun, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, Exploring U2 contains selections from the 2009 inaugural gathering of "The Hype and The Feedback: A Conference Exploring The Music, Work and Influence of U2." 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 examines U2 from perspectives ranging from the personal to the academic and is accessible to curious music fans, students, teachers, and scholars alike.
Four sections organize sixteen essays from leading academics, music critics, clergy, and fans. From the academic disciplines of literature, music, philosophy, and theology, 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 community at live concerts, U2's success as a business brand, Bono's rhetorical presentation of Africa to the Western consumer, and readings of U2's work for irony, personhood, hope, conservatism, and cosmic-time. Official band biographer Neil McCormick considers U2 as a Dublin-shaped band, and Danielle Rhéaume tells how discovering and returning Bono's lost briefcase of lyrics for the album October propelled her along her own artistic journey.
This thoughtful and timely collection recognizes U2's music both as art and commentary on personal journeys and cultural dialogues about contemporary issues. It offers insights and critical assessments that will appeal not only to scholars and students of popular music and culture studies but to those in the fields of theology, philosophy, the performing arts, literature, and all intellectually curious fans of U2.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8157-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8158-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
276
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
Foreword: U2—Contents andDiscontents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Ch01. Boy to Man No access
Ch02. My Voyage of Discovery No access
Ch03. Potent Crossroads No access
Ch04. The Authentic Self in Paul Ricoeur and U2 No access
Ch05. Vocal Layering as Deconstruction and Reinvention in U2 No access
Ch06. “Bullet the Blue Sky” as an Evolving Performance No access
Ch07. U2: An Elevated Brand No access
Ch08. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure No access
Ch09. Playing the Tart No access
Ch10. Where Leitourgia Has No Name No access
Ch11. Bono v. Nick Cave Re: Jesus No access
Ch12. Fallen Angels in the Hands of U2 No access
Ch13. WHEN I LOOK AT THE WORLD No access
Ch14. Boy, Baby, and Bomb No access
Ch15. All That We Can’t Leave Behind No access
Ch16. Across the Universe No access
Bibliography No access Pages 261 - 264
Subject Index No access Pages 265 - 268
Song Index No access Pages 269 - 272
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 273 - 276
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