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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark de Sean Nelson

Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark: 33 1/3

Autor Sean Nelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2007
Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech and Chong). The record was a smash, reaching number two on the charts in March of 1974, spawning three hit singles; Help Me, Free Man in Parisand Raised on Robbery and cementing Mitchell's position as a commercial as well as an artistic force. Sean Nelson, a well known musician himself (Harvey Danger, the Long Winters), is particularly well equipped to understand all the elements that went into the making of this classic album, and he does so with clarity and wit.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826417732
ISBN-10: 0826417736
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria 33 1/3

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

This is Mitchell's most popular album, and beloved by her fans

Cuprins

PrologueThe Struggle for Higher AchievementTwo Heads Are Better Than OneA Broader SensibilityPaint a Starry Night Again, Man

Recenzii

And what do we have here? A short book by Sean Nelson. And who is this Nelson? The man is a singer (most notably for Harvey Danger) and a writer (most notably for The Stranger). Until two years ago, he was an associate editor for the paper that's now in your hands (or on your screen), and since the mid-'90s, his career has vacillated between the poles of full-time singing and full-time writing. The new book is something of a synthesis: Nelson writes about music, or more precisely, the musician Joni Mitchell. The book is part of the 331/3 series published by Continuum. Each book in this series has a writer focusing on an album that arguably plays an important role in the development of pop music since the '60s. In this case, that album is Court and Spark, which Nelson argues is the peak of Joni Mitchell's peak period-1971 to 1975.One of Nelson's approaches is to establish a phrase, a figure/fixture of speech, and then, with a timing that can only be caught by the ear of a good musician (or comedian, or pastor), repeats that figure with an effect that's often at once echoic, humorous and sad. One of the examples of this involves Van Gogh's Starry Night. But the most fascinating (and revealing) aspect of this book is not its substance (the apprenticeship of the author) or its structure (novelistic) but that it treats Mitchell's album (or the albums that make up her most creative period) not like music, nor even like poetry, but like a novel. Nelson writes: "I've attempted a critical appreciation of the record from the lyrics outward...Because that's how I enter music, and that's what I am most taken by when I listen to music." The reason Nelson picked by Joni Mitchell as the subject of his first book is because he wanted to write not just about songwriting but writing itself. What page after page of Court and Spark makes abundantly clear is that when Nelson is not writing he is not doing what he does best.