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Showcasing individual effort and talent, the single-artist album has been adopted by artists such as Neil Young to produce unique additions to their discographies. Steve Hamelman terms this type of project as AlphaSoloism, and gathers eleven scholars to explore eleven unique single-artist albums.
List of contents
Chapter 1: "I Think I'm Pretty Good": Paul McCartney and the Art of AlphaSoloism by Steve Hamelman
Chapter 2: A Perspective on the Single-Artist Album and John Fogerty's Blue Ridge Rangers (1973) by Thomas Kitts
Chapter 3: Songs in the Key of Strife: Stevie Wonder's Solitary Songs of Social Significance on Innervisions (1973) by Ian Peddie
Chapter 4: His Life with You He Shares: Prince's For You (1979) by Sarah Niblock
Chapter 5: Breaking Free of Queen: Roger Taylor's Fun in Space (1981) by Nick Braae
Chapter 6: Martin Newell's The Greatest Living Englishman (1993) by James Martens
Chapter 7: Resignation with Flair: Elliott Smith's Roman Candle (1994) by Kristin Lieb
Chapter 8: Thrown into a Cruel World: Neil Young's Dead Man (1995) by Ulrich Adelt
Chapter 9: Narrative Themes about Post-Band Solo Work in Media Coverage of Ben Folds's Rockin' the Suburbs (2001) by Jordan M. McClain and Amanda S. McClain
Chapter 10: "What's for Tea, Daughter?": Technology and Selling Out in Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out (2005) by Colin Helb
Chapter 11: So Young, So Country, So Self-Contained: Hunter Hayes (2011) by Lawrence Pitilli
About the author
Steve Hamelman is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of But Is It Garbage? On Rock and Trash (2004) and the book and audio reviews editor for the journals Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies.
Summary
Showcasing individual effort and talent, the single-artist album has been adopted by artists such as Neil Young to produce unique additions to their discographies. Steve Hamelman terms this type of project as AlphaSoloism, and gathers eleven scholars to explore eleven unique single-artist albums.
