Karen Fournier

The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an examination of her music, videos, philanthropic work, and biographical details, this book gives insight into Alanis Morissette's musical career and day-to-day life, from her early pop beginnings in Canada to her work today. As a whole, Alanis Morissette's work has never been critically analyzed. The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette addresses this oversight through its examination of Morissette's work in the context of biographical facts, its relationship to other cultural trends, and its reflection of the female perspective. This book merges biographical information with a critical examination of the music that she produced and performed during all periods of her life, thereby providing a needed overview of Morissette's body of work. All Morissette fans will appreciate learning about the details of her life, but the author's melding of the star's personal life story with an informed analysis of popular music will also appeal to a wider audience-readers interested in music, culture, women's studies, or female musicians, for example. The book provides entertaining and engrossing reading for any Alanis Morissette fan and serves as a resource that documents her broad contributions to the music industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216167792
• Artikelnr.: 68342365

Autorenporträt

Karen Fournier is Associate Professor of Music at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan, USA. Her research focuses principally on issues of gender, sexuality, and class in British and American punk rock in the 1970s. She is the author of The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword, by James E. Perone Acknowledgments 1. Theorizing
Morissette The Limitations of "Anger" as an Interpretive Tool Toward a
Broader Analytical Approach 2. "No Apologies" and "No Regrets": Pop
Beginnings The Making of a Teenage Pop Diva Constructing Alanis as the
Virgin-Vixen Alanis (1991) Fulfilling Contractual Obligations with a Second
Album Now Is the Time (1992) Awards and Commercial Response 3. "You Live,
You Learn": Rise to Fame Abandoning Alanis, Becoming Morissette Musical
Context: Grunge, Punk, riot grrrl, and Female Indie Rock A New Performance
Aesthetic and Songwriting Approach Jagged Little Pill (1995) Jagged Little
Videos Awards and Commercial Response 4. "Thank U India": Spirituality
Tempers the "Angry Young Woman" Taking, Then Waking from, a "Conceptual
Nap" Spirituality and "Wholeness" as New Themes Supposed Former Infatuation
Junkie (1998) Junkie Videos Awards and Commercial Response Playing God
(with Kevin Smith) 5. "Hist'ry Under Rug Swept": Moving on without Glen
Ballard Acting Activism and Advocacy Under Rug Swept (2002) Rug Swept
Videos Feasting on Scraps So-Called Chaos (2004) Chaos Videos Awards and
Commercial Response 6. "Giggling Again for No Reason": A Return to Pop
Celebrating a Jagged Little Decade Guy Sigsworth and a New Creative
Partnership Flavors of Entanglement (2008) Entanglement Videos Marriage,
Motherhood, and Breaking with Maverick Havoc and Bright Lights (2012)
Havoc and Bright Lights Videos Awards and Commercial Response Jagged Little
Pill on Broadway as "Miss Thing" Turns 40 Discography Notes Bibliography
Index