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'Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave’s creative endeavors, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career.

The contributors, who hail from an array of disciplines, consider Cave’s work from many different angles, drawing on historical, psychological, pedagogical, and generic perspectives. Illuminating the remarkable scope of Cave’s achievements, they explore his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwriter, and performer, most strikingly in Ghosts of the Civil Dead; his work in theater; and his literary output, which includes the novels And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munro, as well as two collections of prose. Together, the resulting essays provide a lucid overview of Nick Cave’s work that will orient students and fans while offering fresh insights sure to deepen even expert perspectives.' (Publication summary)

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  • Contents:

    Introduction: Nick Cave, Twenty-First Century Man

    John H. Baker

    Part I: Cave, the Songwriter

    1. ‘Into My Arms’: Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman’s Call

    Peter Billingham

    2. The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment

    Carl Lavery

    3. ‘The College Professor Says It’: Using Nick Cave’s Lyrics in the University Classroom

    Paul Lumsden

    4. A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    David Pattie

    Part II: Murder Ballads

    5. ‘Executioner-Style”: Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition

    Nick Groom

    6. In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave’s ‘Stagger Lee’

    Dan Rose

    Part III: Film and Theatre

    7. ‘You Won’t Want the Moment to End’: Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport

    Karoline Gritzner

    8. Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead

    Rebecca Johinke

    9. ‘People Just Ain’t No Good’: Nick Cave’s Noir Western, The Proposition

    William Verrone

    Part IV: Influences

    10. Nick Cave and the Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy

    Isabella van Elferen

    11. The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version

    Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

    12. Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart

    Sarah Wishart

    Part V: Sacred and Profane

    13. ‘There is a Kingdom’: Nick Cave, Christian Artist?

    John H. Baker

    14. ‘The Time of Our Great Undoing’: Love, Madness, Catastrophe and the Secret Afterlife of Romanticism in Nick Cave’s Love Songs

    Steven Barfield

    15. From ‘Cute Cunts’ to ‘No Pussy’: Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred

    Fred Botting

    Notes on Contributors

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Intellect ,       2013 .
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      Extent: 282p.
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      • Published January 2013
      ISBN: 9781841506272
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Works about this Work

Nails and Blood Tim Byrne , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 46)
— Review of The Art of Nick Cave : New Critical Essays 2013 anthology essay
Nails and Blood Tim Byrne , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 46)
— Review of The Art of Nick Cave : New Critical Essays 2013 anthology essay
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