Kate Bush and Hounds of Love
- Author: Moy, Ron
Kate Bush and Hounds of Love
- Author: Moy, Ron
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This book presents a linear track-by-track musical analysis of Kate Bush's albums released between 1978 and 2005. It focuses on the 1985 album Hounds of Love and explores several important critical issues raised by the artist's work and position as a solo, female artist in an industry.
Contents
- Introduction Part One: Her Early Work
- 1. The Kick Inside
- 2. Lionheart
- 3. Never for Ever
- 4. The Dreaming Part Two: Hounds of Love
- 5. Commercial Context and Critical Reception of Hounds of Love
- 6. The Conceptual Work
- 7. Ideas and Influences
- 8. Hounds of Love
- 9. Summary
- 10. A Daughter of Albion?: Kate Bush and Mythologies of Englishness Genealogy
- 11. Creative Influences
- 12. Accent and 'The Grain of the Voice'
- 13. Language and Register
- 14. Style Indicators
- 15. Kate Bush and Auteur Theory
- 16. From Ingenue to Auteur
- 17. Shades and Degrees of Authorship
- 18. Audio Texts, Video Texts: Extensions or Detractions?
- 19. The Society of the Specular
- 20. Pop Video: History and Developments
- 21. An Overview of Kate Bush's Early Videos
- 22. Hair of the Hound
- 23. Coming to Terms with Video
- 24. The Sensual World: The Video
- 25. The Line, The Cross and The Curve Part Three: Her Later Work
- 26. The Whole Story
- 27. The Period Leading up to The Sensual World
- 28. The Sensual World
- 29. This Woman's Work
- 30. The Period Leading up to The Red Shoes
- 31. The Red Shoes
- 32. The Period Leading up to Aerial
- 33. Aerial: A Sea of Honey
- 34. A Sky of Honey
- 35. Coda: We Become Panoramic
