Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings

Contents

• List of Permissions
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Ruth Charnock, University of Lincoln, UK
• Section I . "The breadth of extremities": Voice, Instrument, Feeling
• Chapter 1 . "The Hexagram of the Heavens, The Strings of My Guitar": Joni Mitchell's Crip Virtuosity Matthew L. Jones, University of Georgia, USA
• Chapter 2 . "Oh Borderline": Joni Mitchell's Aging Voice As a Site of Queer Resistance Emily Baker, University of Liverpool, UK
• Chapter 3 . Both Sides, Now: Voice, Affect, and Thirdness Joanne Winning, Birkbeck College, UK
• Chapter 4 . "Dreams and False Alarms": Melancholy in the Work of Joni Mitchell Anne Hilker, Bard Graduate Center, USA
• Section II . "The only [black] man in the room"?: Mitchell's Milieu
• Chapter 5 . In Search of Lost Chords: Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz, and the Refuge of the Road Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College, USA
• Chapter 6 . Tar Baby and the Great White Wonder: Joni Mitchell's Pimp Game Eric Lott, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
• Chapter 7 . Tangled Up in Blue: The Shadow of Dylan and Stylistic Swerves in Early Seventies Joni Mitchell Howard Wilde, University of Hull, UK
• Section III . "Busy being free": Love, Time, Feminism
• Chapter 8 . "Here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock": Joni Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, and Irritable Feminism Pamela Thurschwell, Sussex University, UK
• Chapter 9 . Hollow: "Cactus Tree" and the Signs of Freedom Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Chapter 10 . "The only thing that's never going away": Still Listening to Blue Ruth Charnock, University of Lincoln, UK List of
• Contributors
• Index