This much-needed interdisciplinary analysis is the first of its kind to examine critically Prince's popular music, performances, sounds, lyrics and the plethora of accompanying visual material such as album covers, posters, fashions, promotional videos and feature films. Specifically, the book explores how and why he has played such a profoundly meaningful and significant role in his fans' lives.
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Professor Stan Hawkins, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway and Professor Sarah Niblock, Head of Journalism, Brunel University, UK.
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Etat : Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780754668763. N° de réf. du vendeur 9963876
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xii + 195 pages, NOT ex-library. A fine copy in a mildly shelfworn dust jacket. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. -- The career of the prolific pop artist Prince has become inextricably intertwined with the history of popular music since the late 1970s. This multi-instrumental icon, who remains one of the highest-grossing live performers in America, has been called a genius for his musicianship, composition and incredible performances. But Prince holds iconic status for more than his music. Best known for his racial ambiguity and extravagant sexual persona, Prince's music and visual iconography has always chimed with the ambiguity of subjectivity at any given moment. 'Prince' the sign offers a space for fans to evaluate and reconfigure their attitudes towards their own identities, and towards their position as subjects within the socio-cultural sphere. This much-needed, interdisciplinary analysis is the first to critically examine Prince's popular music, with its accompanying plethora of visual material such as album covers, posters, promotional videos and feature films. Specifically, the book explores how and why he has played such a profoundly meaningful and significant role in his fans' lives.The authors examine Prince's subjectivity - through his sounds, his lyrics, his fashions, his performances and his overall identity as a contradiction in terms. How does a 5ft 2ins African American male from inauspicious origins in Minneapolis come to represent the epitome of musical virtuosity and male sexuality? He has achieved this global superstar status despite an uninhibited media backlash, especially in Britain, a much-publicized feud with the world-dominating media corporation Warner Brothers and despite the ebbs and flows of cultural taste. Only a few books have attempted to chart his biography. But none have so far provided a thorough critical analysis of the Prince phenomenon. The authors not only illuminate a rich array of insights into the making of this enigmatic superstar - much of which seems of go against the grain of popular music convention - but also extend some of the current debates in the study of popular music that have to do with subjectivity, gender and male complicity. -- Contents: 1 The Making of the Authentic Pop Icon; 2 Inscriptions of Otherness: Dandyism, Style and Queer Sensibility; 3 A God of Earthly Pleasures; 4 Voicing the Erotic and the Sublime; 5 'Take Me with U, Prince': Female Identifications with a Male Pop Icon; 6 The Princian Sonic Universe: Matters of Compositional and Performative Proficiency; 7 The Live Experience: Performance and Performativity at the O2 Arena; Selected Discography/?Filmography; Bibliography; Index. N° de réf. du vendeur 005256
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Etat : Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This much-needed interdisciplinary analysis is the first of its kind to examine critically Prince's popular music, performances, sounds, lyrics and the plethora of accompanying visual material such as album covers, posters, fashions, promotional videos and feature films. Specifically, the book explores how and why he has played such a profoundly meaningful and significant role in his fans' lives. N° de réf. du vendeur 24868949/1
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