Overview

Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave’s creative endeavors, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career.  The contributors, who hail from an array of disciplines, consider Cave’s work from many different angles, drawing on historical, psychological, pedagogical, and generic perspectives. Illuminating the remarkable scope of Cave’s achievements, they explore his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwriter, and performer, most strikingly in Ghosts of the Civil Dead; his work in theater; and his literary output, which includes the novels And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munro, as well as two collections of prose. Together, the resulting essays provide a lucid overview of Nick Cave’s work that will orient students and fans while offering fresh insights sure to deepen even expert perspectives.

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Author:   John H. Baker
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9781841506272

ISBN 10:   1841506273
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   15 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Nick Cave, Twenty-First Century Man – John H. Baker PART I: Cave, the Songwriter Chapter 1: ‘Into My Arms’: Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman’s Call – Peter Billingham Chapter 2: The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment – Carl Lavery Chapter 3: ‘The College Professor Says It’: Using Nick Cave’s Lyrics in the University Classroom – Paul Lumsden Chapter 4: A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – David Pattie PART II: Murder Ballads Chapter 5: ‘Executioner-Style’: Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition – Nick Groom Chapter 6: In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave’s ‘Stagger Lee’ – Dan Rose PART III: Film and Theatre  Chapter 7: ‘You Won’t Want the Moment to End’: Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport – Karoline Gritzner Chapter 8: Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts … of the Civil Dead – Rebecca Johinke Chapter 9: ‘People Just Ain’t No Good’: Nick Cave’s Noir Western, The Proposition – William Verrone PART IV: Influences  Chapter 10: Nick Cave and Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy – Isabella van Elferen Chapter 11: The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version – Nathan Wiseman-Trowse Chapter 12: Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart – Sarah Wishart PART V: Sacred and Profane  Chapter 13: ‘There is a Kingdom’: Nick Cave, Christian Artist? – John H. Baker Chapter 14: ‘The Time of Our Great Undoing’: Love, Madness, Catastrophe and the Secret Afterlife of Romanticism in Nick Cave’s Love Songs – Steven Barfield Chapter 15: From ‘Cute Cunts’ to ‘No Pussy’: Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred – Fred Botting

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John H. Baker is lecturer in English at the University of Westminster. His research interests are literature and religion, Howard Barker, D. H. Lawrence, Philip Pullman, Nick Cave, and Morrissey. Farleigh Dickinson University Press published his book Browning and Wordsworth in 2004.

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