The Songs of Joni Mitchell: Gender, Performance and Agency / Edition 1

by Anne Karppinen

Overview

Using methods from critical discourse analysis, this book examines recorded performances of songs from Mitchell's first nine studio albums, and the contemporary reviews of these albums in Anglo-American rock magazines. In one of the only books to discuss Mitchell's recorded performances, with a focus that extends beyond the seminal album Blue, Karppinen explores the craft of Mitchell' songwriting and her own attitudes towards it, as well as the dynamics and politics of rock criticism in the 1960s and 1970s more generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472465948
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/2016
Series:	Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne Karppinen is a university teacher, translator and musician. She earned her MA in English and her PhD in Contemporary Culture from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She teaches English at The Open University of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1

1. Sexual Difference, Texts and Discourses

2. Will you take me as I am? Subjectivity, Autobiography and Authorship

3. Women in Rock and Other Oxymorons

Part 2

4. The Early Period (1968-1970)

5. The Self-Conscious Period (1971-1974)

6. The Socially Conscious Period (1975-1977)

Part 3

7. A Soprano Has No Credibility? Joni Mitchell and the Rock Press

8. The Singer-Songwriter and the Making of the Canon

Conclusion

Appendix: Tunings.

Bibliography

Index