Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings
- Editor: Charnock, Ruth
Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings
- Editor: Charnock, Ruth
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Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings recognizes the importance and innovativeness of the musician and artist Joni Mitchell and the need for a collection that theorizes her work as musician, composer, cultural commentator and antagonist. It showcases pieces by established and early career academics from the fields of popular music and literary studies on subjects such as Mitchell’s guitar technique, the politics of aging in her work, and her fractious relationship with feminism. The collection features close readings of specific songs, albums, and performances while also paying keen attention to Mitchell’s wider cultural contributions and significance.
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
