Peter Gabriel, From Genesis to Growing Up
- Author: Hill, Sarah
- Editor: Drewett, Michael
[these] essays ... reveal many new insights into one of the more successful pop-rock artists of the past four decades. This volume offers a well-rounded sampling of Gabriel's career and a strong... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Peter Gabriel: from Genesis to growing up, Michael Drewett, Sarah Hill and Kimi KArki
- Part I Identity and Representation: From the New Jerusalem to the secret world: Peter Gabriel and the shifting self, Sarah Hill
- Peter Gabriel and the question of being eccentric, Kari Kallioniemi
- How Peter Gabriel got his mozo working, Kevin Holm-Hudson
- Staging masculinities: visual imagery in Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' video, Brenda Schmahmann
- Peter Gabriel's elegy for Anne Sexton: image and music in 'Mercy Street', Carol Vernallis. Part II Politics and Power: The eyes of the world are watching now: the political effectiveness of 'Biko' by Peter Gabriel, Michael Drewett
- Musical markers as catalysts in social revolutions: the case of Gabriel's 'Biko', Ingrid Bianca Byerly
- 'Nothin' but the same of story': old hegemonies, new musics, Timothy D. Taylor
- 'Hand-made, hi-tech, worldwide': Peter Gabriel and world music, David Laing. Part III Production and Performance: Nursery crymes and sirens' cries: Peter Gabriel's use of the flute, Rebecca Guy
- 'I'd like my record to sound like this...': Peter Gabriel and audio technology, Franco Fabbri
- 'I need contact' - rock 'n' roll ritual: Peter Gabriel's Security tour, 1982-83, Jeffrey Callen
- Plasticine music: surrealism in Peter Gabriels 'Sledgehammer', John Richardson
- The introspectionist: the phonographic staging of voice in Peter Gabriel's 'Blood of Eden' and 'Digging in the Dirt', Serge Lacasse
- Turning the axis: the stage performance design collaboration between Peter Gabriel and Robert Lepage, Kimi KArki
- Bibliography
- Index.
