The Art of Nick Cave New Critical Essays
Edited by John H. Baker Table of Contents
Introduction: Nick Cave, Twenty-First Century Man 1 John H. Baker
PART!: Cave, the Songwriter 9
Chapter 1: 'Into My Arms': Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman's Call 11 Peter Billingham
Chapter 2: The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment 27 Carl Lavery
Chapter 3: 'The College Professor Says It': Using Nick Cave's Lyrics in the University Classroom 45 Paul Lumsden
Chapter 4: A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 61 David Pattie
PART ii: Murder Ballads 77
Chapter 5: 'Executioner-Style': Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition 79 Nick Groom
Chapter 6: In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave's 'Stagger Lee' 97 Dan Rose PART III: Film and Theatre 113
Chapter 7: 'You Won't Want the Moment to End': Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport 115 Karoline Gritzner
Chapter 8: Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts... of the Civil Dead 137 Rebecca Johinke
Chapter 9: 'People Just Ain't No Good': Nick Cave's Noir Western, The Proposition 155 William Verrone
PART IV: Influences 173
Chapter 10: Nick Cave and Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy 175 Isabella van Elferen
Chapter 11: The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version 189 Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
Chapter 12: Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart 203 Sarah Wishart
PART V: Sacred and Profane 217
Chapter 13: 'There is a Kingdom': Nick Cave, Christian Artist? 219 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 239 Steven Barfield
Chapter 15: From 'Cute Cunts' to 'No Pussy': Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred 261 Fred Botting
Notes on Contributors 277
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