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Objectstaat
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Publication Date
2009-04-07
Pages
240
ISBN
9781416559290
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Will You Take Me As I AM : Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
Author
Michelle Mercer
Item Length
8.4in
Publisher
Free Press
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, History
Topic
Women, History & Criticism, Social History, Composers & Musicians
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album,Blue,is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions.Will You Take Me As I Am-- the first book about Joni Mitchell to include original interviews with her -- looks atBlueto explore the development of an extraordinary artist, the history of songwriting, and much more.In extensive conversations with Mitchell, Michelle Mercer heard firsthand about Joni's internal and external journeys as she composed the largely autobiographical albums of what Mercer calls her Blue Period, which lasted through the mid-1970s. Incorporating biography, memoir, reportage, criticism, and interviews into an illuminating narrative, Mercer moves beyond the "making of an album" genre to arrive at a new form of music writing.In 1970, Mitchell was living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon and had made a name for herself as a so-called folk singer notable for her soaring voice and skillful compositions. Soon, though, feeling hemmed in, she fled to the hippie cave community of Matala, Greece. Here and on further travels, her compositions were freshly inspired by the lands and people she encountered as well as by her own radically changing interior landscape. After returning home to recordBlue,Mitchell retreated to British Columbia, eventually reemerging as the leader of a successful jazz-rock group and turning outward in her songwriting toward social commentary. Finally, a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and a pivotal meeting with the Tibetan lama ChÖgyam Trungpa prompted Mitchell's return to personal songwriting, which resulted in her 1976 masterpiece album,Hejira.Mercer interlaces this fascinating account of Mitchell's Blue Period with meditations on topics related to her work, including the impact of landscape on music, the value of autobiographical songwriting for artist and listener, and the literary history of confessionalism. Mercer also provides rich analyses of Mitchell's creative achievements: her innovative manner of marrying lyrics to melody; her inventive, highly expressive chords that achieve her signature blend of wonder and melancholy; how she pioneered personal songwriting and, along with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, brought a new literacy to the popular song. Fans will appreciate the previously unpublished photos and a coda of Mitchell's unedited commentary on the places, books, music, pastimes, and philosophies she holds dear.This utterly original book offers a unique portrait of a great musician and her remarkable work, as well as new perspectives on the art of songwriting itself.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1416559299
ISBN-13
9781416559290
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70422563

Product Key Features

Book Title
Will You Take Me As I AM : Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
Author
Michelle Mercer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, History & Criticism, Social History, Composers & Musicians
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ml410.M6823m47 2009
Reviews
"What distinguishes this work from standard celebrity profiles is that it reads like a collection of cultural essays.... Mercer uses her subject's own words (she conducted a trove of interviews with Mitchell) to illustrate her thesis that Mitchell helped make the personal songwriters of the late '60s and early '70s the literary successors to the Beats.... She addresses nuances of Mitchell's art that have not been adequately recognized but does not lionize her. Rather, Mitchell is revealed as a complicated woman for whom being widely liked is both anathema and a great need."--Los Angeles Times, "Michelle Mercer has gone beyond the lurid, tell-all biography to investigate the elements and events that combine to create an innovative artist. Like Joni's work has always done, her book transcends the norm, and delves into the universal." --Larry Klein,bassist, songwriter, and producer of the Grammy Award-winning album,?The Joni Letters, "Michelle Mercer has a quick instinct for the dynamics of musical creativity, how experience feeds the lyric imagination, and how private insights go public. Her smart and deeply felt portrait gives us Mitchell's life, its defining intensities—everything that went into the making of?Blue—but avoids going in for the explanatory kill. The sweet vibration of the work remains." --?Sven Birkerts, author of?My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time, "Knowledgeable, scrupulously researched, insightfully written, sympathetic to its subject yet without a scintilla of fanzine gush, this book is the very model of what pop cultural criticism could and should be."-- Phillip Lopate,author ofNotes on Sontag, "Mercer, an accomplished music journalist, wisely places her focus on Blue's almost perfect marriage of lyric, melody, mood, and explored experience at the center of the book, surrounded by a careful yet conversational look at how Mitchell got to that point in her life and where she went in the years that followed. Mercer was fortunate to spend extensive time talking directly with the media-shy Mitchell. The author's own thoughts and experiences play a subtle yet pivotal role as the enduring power of Blue is reflected in her personal narrative as one who was, and remains, inspired by this landmark recording."--Library Journal
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-050426
Dewey Decimal
782.42164092
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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