Research Catalog

Title

I'll take you there : pop music and the urge for transcendence / Bill Friskics-Warren.

Author

Friskics-Warren, Bill.

Publication

New York : Continuum, c2005.

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Details

Description

vi, 276 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Popular music > History and criticism
• Transcendence (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244), discography (p. [245]-257), and index.

Contents

Prologue: I want to take you higher -- Introduction: Cleaning windows: Restlessness, records, and transcendence -- Mystics: Contemplatives, Sensualists, and Empaths -- Dwellers on the threshold: Van Morrison, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and P.M. Dawn -- Sexual healing, or something like sanctified: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Madonna, and PJ Harvey -- My love I bring: Sinead O'Connor, Buddy and Julie Miller, and Moby -- Naysayers: Dystopians and "idiots" -- The great wrong place in which we live: Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Joy Division, and New Order -- License to ill: The Stooges, the Sex Pistols, PiL, and Eminem -- Prophets: Voices of Uplift, Resistance, and Possibility -- Keep on pushing: Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, and U2 -- Fight the power: Spearhead, the Mekons, and Public Enemy -- Dance to the music: Sly & the Family Stone, Bikini Kill, Liberation Rock, Sleater-Kinney, and Le Tigre -- Epilogue: Hungry heart Bruce Springsteen.

Call Number

JME 05-772

ISBN

• 9780826417008 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0826417000 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005020280

OCLC

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Author

Friskics-Warren, Bill.

Title

I'll take you there : pop music and the urge for transcendence / Bill Friskics-Warren.

Imprint

New York : Continuum, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244), discography (p. [245]-257), and index.

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Research Call Number

JME 05-772