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'This article recounts the journey I took to explore how a prose writer draws inspiration from music and lyrics, as opposed to the traditional sources of written texts in books. 'Dancing in the Dark', my 'prose album' based on Bruce Springsteen's record album Born to Run, appropriates and reworks Springsteen's universal themes and female characters. It fleshes out untold stories suggested by Springsteen's songs, amplifies the voice of a girl locked in the push-pull of staying safe in the house versus being free on the open road, and is juxtaposed to the traditional unquestioning masculine freedom quintessential in Springsteen's lyrical terrain. Along the way in my writing process, I was accompanied by six Muses. Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Mary Fallon, Vicki Viidikas, Julia Kristeva and Marguerite Duras were my driving companions.' (Author's abstract)
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Epigraph:
Music can be a channel for grace, words can be arranged to form poetry,
love can exist and have a meaning. Things can be salvaged, the past
can be made to yield up something that is pure.
- Helen Garner
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10069-20130717-0031-www.textjournal.com.au/oct12/fraser.htm
Springsteen, Six Muses and Me : Music and the Writing Process
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
Subjects:
- Vicki Viidikas Rediscovered : Ali Alizadeh Interviews Barry Scott 2010 single work interview
- Working Hot 1983 single work short story
- On Passion 2010 single work essay
- New and Rediscovered 2010 selected work poetry prose short story
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