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Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
IntroductionChapter One Imagining America: Jazz, Blues, Country, and the Mythologies of the WestChapter Two What Makes the Irish Heart Beat? The Irishness of Van MorrisonChapter Three Get the Words on the Page: Van Morrison as WriterChapter Four Caught One More Time: Themes and ThematicsChapter Five Listening to the Lion: Van Morrison as a Singer
Chapter Six On the Burning Ground: Liveness and the Recording Studio
Chapter Seven Down the Road: Van Morrison, Exile, and the Idea of Eternal Movement
Chapter Eight A Three Cornered Quartet: Van Morrison and the Art of Through CompositionPostscript Make It Real One More Time Again: Astral Weeks LiveAppendix One - The 2006 ShowsAppendix Two - Recording StudiosBibliographyDiscography
About the author
Peter Mills is Senior Lecturer in Media & Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Hewas singer and lyricist for the band Innocents Abroad who made two albums, Quaker City and Eleven. He has taught music, literature and philosophy at universities in the UK , Hungary, Romania and Croatia, and has published work on, amongst others,Samuel Beckett,Olaf Stapledon,Hungarian folk music, Pink Floyd, national anthems and The KLF.
Foreword
A groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship with America, and more.
