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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark [33 1/3]
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780826417732
- Book Title
- Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark
- Item Length
- 6.4in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- Genres & Styles / Rock
- Item Width
- 4.8in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 126 Pages
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Court and Spark isJoni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full ofglossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from everystratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech andChong). The record was a smash, reaching number two on the charts inMarch of 1974, spawning three hit singles; Help Me, Free Man in Parisand Raised on Robbery and cementing Mitchell's position as a commercialas well as an artistic force. Sean Nelson, a well known musician himself (Harvey Danger, the Long Winters), is particularly well equipped to understand all the elements that went into the making of this classic album, and he does so with clarity and wit.>
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826417736
ISBN-13
9780826417732
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51813714
Product Key Features
Book Title
Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Music
Number of Pages
126 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
4.8in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420.M542n45 2006
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"And what do we have here? A short book by Sean Nelson. And who is this Nelson? The man is a singer (most notably for Harvey Danger) and a writer (most notably for The Stranger ). Until two years ago, he was an associate editor for the paper that's now in your hands (or on your screen), and since the mid-'90s, his career has vacillated between the poles of full-time singing and full-time writing. The new book is something of a synthesis: Nelson writes about music, or more precisely, the musician Joni Mitchell. The book is part of the 331/3 series published by Continuum. Each book in this series has a writer focusing on an album that arguably plays an important role in the development of pop music since the '60s. In this case, that album is Court and Spark , which Nelson argues is the peak of Joni Mitchell's peak period �1971 to 1975.One of Nelson's approaches is to establish a phrase, a figure/fixture of speech, and then, with a timing that can only be caught by the ear of a good musician (or comedian, or pastor), repeats that figure with an effect that's often at once echoic, humorous and sad. One of the examples of this involves Van Gogh's Starry Night. But the most fascinating (and revealing) aspect of this book is not its substance (the apprenticeship of the author) or its structure (novelistic) but that it treats Mitchell's album (or the albums that make up her most creative period) not like music, nor even like poetry, but like a novel. Nelson writes: "I've attempted a critical appreciation of the record from the lyrics outward...Because that's how I enter music, and that's what I am most taken by when I listen to music." The reason Nelson picked by Joni Mitchell as the subject of his first book is because he wanted to write not just about songwriting but writing itself. What page after page of Court and Spark makes abundantly clear is that when Nelson is not writing he is not doing what he does best.", "And what do we have here? A short book by Sean Nelson. And who is this Nelson? The man is a singer (most notably for Harvey Danger) and a writer (most notably for The Stranger ). Until two years ago, he was an associate editor for the paper that''s now in your hands (or on your screen), and since the mid-''90s, his career has vacillated between the poles of full-time singing and full-time writing. The new book is something of a synthesis: Nelson writes about music, or more precisely, the musician Joni Mitchell. The book is part of the 331/3 series published by Continuum. Each book in this series has a writer focusing on an album that arguably plays an important role in the development of pop music since the ''60s. In this case, that album is Court and Spark , which Nelson argues is the peak of Joni Mitchell''s peak period "1971 to 1975.One of Nelson''s approaches is to establish a phrase, a figure/fixture of speech, and then, with a timing that can only be caught by the ear of a good musician (or comedian, or pastor), repeats that figure with an effect that''s often at once echoic, humorous and sad. One of the examples of this involves Van Gogh''s Starry Night. But the most fascinating (and revealing) aspect of this book is not its substance (the apprenticeship of the author) or its structure (novelistic) but that it treats Mitchell''s album (or the albums that make up her most creative period) not like music, nor even like poetry, but like a novel. Nelson writes: "I''ve attempted a critical appreciation of the record from the lyrics outward...Because that''s how I enter music, and that''s what I am most taken by when I listen to music." The reason Nelson picked by Joni Mitchell as the subject of his first book is because he wanted to write not just about songwriting but writing itself. What page after page of Court and Spark makes abundantly clear is that when Nelson is not writing he is not doing what he does best."
Table of Content
Prologue The Struggle for Higher Achievement Two Heads Are Better Than One A Broader Sensibility Paint a Starry Night Again, Man
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-029498
Dewey Decimal
782.42164092
Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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