Feel My Big Guitar (eBook)

Prince and the Sound He Helped Create

Judson L. Jeffries, Shannon M. Cochran, Molly Reinhoudt (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023 | EPUB SINGLE
202 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-4529-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Contributions by Ignatius Calabria, H. Zahra Caldwell, Brian Jude de Lima, Sabatino DiBernardo, William Fulton, Antonio Garfias, Judson L. Jeffries, Tony Kiene, Molly Reinhoudt, Fred Shaheen, and Karen Turman With his signature blend of genres and lyrics that touch on myriad societal issues, the artist Prince (1958-2016) has challenged and captivated the minds and hearts of countless listeners. Feel My Big Guitar: Prince and the Sound He Helped Create is a wide-ranging collection that seeks to place Prince at the center of contemporary musical scholarship, putting him in proper cultural and political context. This edited volume includes a mix of essays and reflections by scholars and fans, as well as interviews with people who worked with and knew Prince personally. Employing a blend of methodologies, contributors offer a body of fresh, intriguing, thought-provoking, and mind-bending work about Prince-an artist whose music exemplified those very characteristics.The volume examines Prince's musical influences, his rivalries (both real and imagined), and instrumental eroticism. It includes enlightening interviews with early mentor Pepe Willie and Gayle Chapman, Prince's first female bandmate. These personal reflections and interviews grant readers a unique lens through which to view Prince, enriching our overall understanding of the man. Ultimately, Feel My Big Guitar serves as a space for sharing musicological analysis and memories about an artist whose work has touched and inspired so many. Years in the making, this is the first book in an ongoing scholarly project, PrincEnlighteNmenT: A Study of Society through Music, intended to investigate and reveal the full spectrum of Prince's life and work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1980s music • 1999 • African American Studies • Andy Warhol • Billy Idol • Carmen Electra • Cold War • Drug Addiction • Funk • Gayle Chapman • George Clinton • guitar virtuoso • instrumental eroticism • Jimi Hendrix • Joni Mitchell • Kiss • Let's Work • little red corvette • Mayte Garcia • musical analysis • Pepe Willie • Pop • Poverty • Purple Rain • R&B • Raspberry Beret • Rick James • Rock • Sexuality • Sheila E. • societal issues • Soul • U Got the Look • When Doves Cry
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-4529-3 / 1496845293
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-4529-0 / 9781496845290