The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette

Contents

• Series Foreword, by James E. Perone
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Theorizing Morissette The Limitations of "Anger" as an Interpretive Tool Toward a Broader Analytical Approach
• 2. "No Apologies" and "No Regrets": Pop Beginnings The Making of a Teenage Pop Diva Constructing Alanis as the Virgin-Vixen Alanis (1991) Fulfilling Contractual Obligations with a Second Album Now Is the Time (1992) Awards and Commercial Response
• 3. "You Live, You Learn": Rise to Fame Abandoning Alanis, Becoming Morissette Musical Context: Grunge, Punk, riot grrrl, and Female Indie Rock A New Performance Aesthetic and Songwriting Approach Jagged Little Pill (1995) Jagged Little Videos Awards
• 4. "Thank U India": Spirituality Tempers the "Angry Young Woman" Taking, Then Waking from, a "Conceptual Nap" Spirituality and "Wholeness" as New Themes Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998) Junkie Videos Awards and Commercial Response Playing Go
• 5. "Hist'ry Under Rug Swept": Moving on without Glen Ballard Acting Activism and Advocacy Under Rug Swept (2002) Rug Swept Videos Feasting on Scraps So-Called Chaos (2004) Chaos Videos Awards and Commercial Response
• 6. "Giggling Again for No Reason": A Return to Pop Celebrating a Jagged Little Decade Guy Sigsworth and a New Creative Partnership Flavors of Entanglement (2008) Entanglement Videos Marriage, Motherhood, and Breaking with Maverick Havoc and Bright
• Bibliography
• Index