Raccolta di Saggi su Nick Cave
Vi giro la notizia di una raccolta di saggi critici su Nick Cave che verrà pubblicata a giugno da Ashgate, un editore universitario di grande prestigio “accademico” (www.ashgate.com). La raccolta è inserita all’interno di una collana sulla “popular culture”. Titolo Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave, ed. Karen Welberry. L’unico problema è il prezzo: 50 sterline!!! Ma purtroppo la Ashgate è notoriamente un editore molto caro, anche se di altissimo livello. A me pare bello che Cave venga affrontato anche da questo punto di vista. Eccovi alcune informazioni sui contenuti:
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman project (2008), Cave’s career spans thirty years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive appraisals of his work, its significance and its impact on understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence, the present volume is both timely and necessary.
Cultural Seeds brings together an international range of scholars and practitioners, each of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave’s career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of seeing and understanding Cave’s contributions to contemporary culture, but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often separated in the academy and in the media. Topics include Cave and the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the fluidity of contemporary artistic practice.
Contents:
-Introduction, Tanya Dalziell and Karen Welberry;
Part 1 Cultural Contexts
-The light within: the 21st century love songs of Nick Cave, Jillian Burt;
-Planting seeds, Clinton Walker;
-Nick Cave and the Australian language of laughter, Karen Welberry;
-Nick Cave, dance performance and the production of masculinity, Laknath Jayasinghe.
Part 2 Intersections
-An audience for antagonism, Chris Bilton;
-And the Ass Saw the Angel: a novel of fragment and excess, Carol Hart;
-Red right hand: the cinema and Nick Cave, Adrian Danks;
-Grinderman: all stripped down, Angela Jones.
Part 3 The Sacred
-From mutiny to calling upon the author: Cave’s religion, Robert Eaglestone;
-Oedipus wrecks: Cave and the Presley myth, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse;
-Fleshed sacred: the carnal theologies of Nick Cave, Lyn McCredden;
-The moose and Nick Cave: melancholy, creativity and love songs, Tanya Dalziell.
About the Editor: Dr Karen Welberry, School of Communications, Arts, and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Australia and Dr Tanya Dalziell, English, Communication and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia, Australia
