Canadiana
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition
Author : Larry David Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313067872
Book Description
The torch song has long been a vehicle for expression—perhaps American song's most sheerly visceral one. Two artists in particular have built upon this tradition to express their own unique outlooks on their lives and the world around them. Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and the Torch Song Tradition combines biographical material, artist commentary, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the writers' work to reveal the power of authorship and the creative drive necessary to negotiate an artistic vision in the complicated mechanisms of the commercial music industry. Author Larry David Smith, as in his Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song, considers the complicated intersection of biography, creative philosophy, artistic imperative, and stylistic tendencies in the work of both Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello—two songwriters with seemingly nothing in common, one famously confessional and one famously confrontational. Yet, as Smith shows so incisively, they are two personalities that prove fascinatingly complementary. Mitchell and Costello both yielded bodies of work that are cohesive, coherent, and rich in meaning. Both have made historic contributions to the singer-songwriter model, two rebellious respones to the creative and commercial compromises associated with their chosen field, and two distinct thematic responses to the torch song tradition. Smith examines these responses, offering a unique and invaluable exploration of the craft of two of the last century's most towering musical figures.
The Music of Joni Mitchell
Author : Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 019988577X
Book Description
Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.
Joni Mitchell
Author : Mark Bego
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589792211
Book Description
In February of 1996, Joni Mitchell was honored by the Grammy Awards in two separate categories, which represent the two sides of her creativity. As an accomplished painter, her self portrait on the cover of her "Turbulent Indigo" album won her the trophy as "Best Album Cover Artist," and the music contained on the LP won the "Best Pop Performance, Female." Only months later it was her personal life that was in the headlines as news that the daughter she had given up for adoption as a teenager, had been seeking her birth mother. With all of this creative and personal activity in her life, Joni is officially back in the spotlight, and the time has come for a hard cover biography on this fascinating star. Including revealing information from exclusive new interviews, rare TV interviews, and several inside sources-Joni's friends, rivals and contemporaries-this book will fully examine this beloved performer from every angle, public and private. Mark Bego will also recount his own 1990s personal interview with the elusive Joni Mitchell herself. The book will include an examination of: ·Joni's sudden role as a mother, in her 50's, as her daughter Kileen successfully finds her after over 30 years ·The truth about her rumored love affairs with Crosby, Stills, Nash AND Young ·Her relationships with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Judy Collins, and Georgia O'Keefe ·Joni's rich catalog of music, and her place in rock & roll history
Joni on Joni
Author : Susan Whitall
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0914090445
Book Description
Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet. She often said she would be criticized for staying the same or changing, so why not take the less boring option? Her earthy, poetic lyrics ("the geese in chevron flight" in "Urge for Going"), the phrases that are now part of the culture ("They paved paradise, put up a parking lot"), and the unusual melodic intervals traced by that lissome voice earned her the status of a pop legend. Fearless experimentation ensured that she will also be seen as one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. Joni on Joni is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of some of Mitchell's most illuminating interviews, spanning the years 1966 to 2014. It includes revealing pieces from her early years in Canada and Detroit along with influential articles such as Cameron Crowe's never-before-anthologized Rolling Stone piece. Interspersed throughout the book are key quotes from dozens of additional Q&As. Together, this material paints a revealing picture of the artist— bragging and scornful, philosophical and deep, but also a beguiling flirt.
Music of our Times
Author : Marco Adria
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781550283150
Book Description
This pioneering work in Canadian pop music criticism analyses the work of some of the country's most acclaimed musicians, winners of national and international awards and recognition. Marco Adria examines the songs of eight Canadian artists who belong to pop music's literati--singer-songerwriters whose work reflects considerable refinement and taste. Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLaughlan, Jane Siberry and k.d. lang are all artists with considerable insight both in Canada and abroad. Individual chapters on each offer thoughtful accounts of their careers and their achievements as interpreters of contemporary popular culture. Music of our Times presents new insights and new understandings of Canada's most acclaimed musicians.
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
Author : Nathan Brackett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 0743201698
Book Description
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All Music Guide to Rock
Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 1430 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879306533
Book Description
This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.
Audio
Author :
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Acoustical engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Joni Mitchell Complete So Far
Author : Joni Mitchell
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1470622742
Book Description
Joni Mitchell Complete So Far contains 167 songs spanning her entire career, transcribed accurately and including the authentic tunings Joni explored throughout her artistic development. Titles: * All I Want * Amelia * The Arrangement * (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care * Bad Dreams * Banquet * Barangrill * Be Cool * The Beat of Black Wings * Big Yellow Taxi * Big Yellow Taxi (2007) * A Bird That Whistles (Corrina, Corrina) * Black Crow * Blonde in the Bleachers * Blue * Blue Boy * Blue Motel Room * The Boho Dance * Borderline * Both Sides, Now * Cactus Tree * California * Car on a Hill * Carey * A Case of You * Chelsea Morning * Cherokee Louise * Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody * The Circle Game * Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire * Come In from the Cold * Conversation * Cool Water * Court and Spark * Coyote * The Crazy Cries of Love * Dancin' Clown * The Dawntreader * Dog Eat Dog * Don Juan's Reckless Daughter * Don't Interrupt the Sorrow * Down to You * Dreamland * Edith and the Kingpin * Electricity * Ethiopia * Face Lift * Fiction * The Fiddle and the Drum * For Free * For the Roses * Free Man in Paris * Furry Sings the Blues * The Gallery * God Must Be a Boogie Man * Good Friends * Hana * Harlem in Havana * Harry's House—Centerpiece * Hejira * Help Me * The Hissing of Summer Lawns * How Do You Stop * I Don't Know Where I Stand * I Had a King * I Think I Understand * If * If I Had a Heart * Impossible Dreamer * In France They Kiss on Main Street * Jericho * Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) * The Jungle Line * Just Like This Train * Ladies' Man * Ladies of the Canyon * Lakota * Last Chance Lost * The Last Time I Saw Richard * Lead Balloon * Lesson in Survival * Let the Wind Carry Me * Little Green * Love * Love Puts on a New Face * Lucky Girl * The Magdalene Laundries * Man from Mars * Man to Man * Marcie * Michael from Mountains * Moon at the Window * Morning Morgantown * My Best to You * My Old Man * My Secret Place * Nathan la Franeer * Night in the City * Night of the Iguana * Night Ride Home * No Apologies * Not to Blame * Nothing Can Be Done * Number One * Off Night Backstreet * One Week Last Summer * The Only Joy in Town * Otis and Marlena * Overture—Cotton Avenue * Paprika Plains * Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free) * People's Parties * The Pirate of Penance * The Priest * Rainy Night House * Raised on Robbery * Ray's Dad's Cadillac * The Reoccurring Dream * Refuge of the Roads * River * Roses Blue * Same Situation * See You Sometime * Sex Kills * Shades of Scarlett Conquering * Shadows and Light * Shine * Shiny Toys * The Silky Veils of Ardor * The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) * Sisotowbell Lane * Slouching Towards Bethlehem * Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) * Snakes and Ladders * Solid Love * Song for Sharon * Song to a Seagull * Songs to Aging Children Come * Stay in Touch * A Strange Boy * Strong and Wrong * Sunny Sunday * Sweet Bird * Talk to Me * Taming the Tiger * Tax Free * The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) * That Song About the Midway * This Flight Tonight * This Place * The Three Great Stimulants * Tin Angel * Trouble Child * Turbulent Indigo * Twisted * Two Grey Rooms * Underneath the Streetlight * Urge for Going * Wild Things Run Fast * Willy * The Windfall (Everything for Nothing) * The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey * Woman of Heart and Mind * Woodstock * You Dream Flat Tires * You Turn Me on I'm a Radio * Yvette in English
