Overview
Not a simplified version of the Book of Mormon, but a completely rewritten paraphrase, with a contemporary voice hovering somewhere in the realm of J. D. Salinger, Hunter Thompson, and some generic humanist academic/poet, i.e., me. An affectionate, meditational dramatization and commentary. From the Introduction: Why 'street-legal'? That's a term we use for souped-up cars-streamlined and powerfully efficient but also decorative, with decals, pinstriping, and tricked-out doodads-that still can be ridden in normal lanes of traffic. They're not cars meant for everyday errands, to be sure. Offroad is their normal habitat. But the only thing they usually lack to be 'normal' is a better muffler. This paraphrase of the Book of Mormon is like that. I've streamlined a lot of passages, put them in terse, up-to-date vernacular, thinking that's what one would have done if one were scratching the book out on metal plates. I've tried to muscle up the prose. But I've also added lots of linguistic decals: digressions, snippets of commentary, queries, and even humor, which the original editor, Mormon, apparently cut.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Hicks (King Alfred's University College UK)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.667kg
ISBN: 9781477615836
ISBN 10: 1477615830
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 19 July 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Composer, performer, scholar, and poet Michael Hicks (1956- ) has been teaching in the BYU School of Music since 1985. He is the author of four scholarly books: Mormonism and Music: A History (1989), Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions (1999), Henry Cowell, Bohemian (2002), and Christian Wolff (2012, co-authored with Christian Asplund), all published by University of Illinois Press. His historical and analytical articles have appeared in dozens of books and journals, including Musical Quarterly, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Perspectives of New Music, and Journal of Aesthetic Education. He has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1994 and 2003) for his writing about music, and a third time as editor of the journal American Music, a post he held from 2007-2010. His poetry has been published in Dialogue, BYU Studies, Literature and Belief, Sunstone, and in the anthologies Cadence of Hooves (2008), New Poets of the American West (2010) and Fire in the Pasture (2011). His chamber music may be heard on the CDs Found Horizon, Late Conversations, and Ritual Grounds, all on the Tantara label, which in 2007 also issued his singer-songwriter album Valentine St.
