The Places Of Van Morrisons Songwriting

Author : Geoff Munns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000810232
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting written by Geoff Munns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn about Van Morrison’s life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, ‘Cleaning Windows’ and ‘The Healing Game’. Others are less familiar. Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career, starting from the Them period and extending through his solo albums. These readings show how thinking about Morrison’s use of place provides a specific lens that contributes to a greater understanding of his art. The songs are organized into chapters that reflect many of the important places in Morrison’s work as he ventured professionally and imaginatively away from the places of his upbringing towards a wider musical world. These places are in city streetscapes and country landscapes – in home places of streets and ditches, in the enclosed spaces of rooms, in the expansive reaches of the natural world, in indeterminate and specific foreign lands. A picture emerges of the journey that Van Morrison details through his songs, one that sees him first wandering as a boy through his East Belfast haunts, and then venturing out to a wider world away from this local place.

Author : Erik Hage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031335863X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words and Music of Van Morrison written by Erik Hage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Morrison is primal but sophisticated; he's accessible but inscrutable; he's a complex songwriter and a raw blues shouter; he's a steady influence on the musical scene but wildly unpredictable as well, and it's these complex and often conflicting qualities that make him such a compelling subject for the Singer-Songwriter series. Journalist Erik Hage here eschews a cold, empirical study of structures and influence, and seeks instead more natural and intuitive means of appreciating all that is unique, eclectic, and surprising about Van Morrison's impressive output. In addition to covering almost all of Van Morrison's musical work and offering new readings of many iconic songs, Hage also provides a biographical introduction and a complete discography that can help listeners find new perspective on Morrison's body of work. Even in his darkest and most naked moments-in Astral Weeks for instance-Van Morrison's songs can still suggest something uplifting. Sometimes these two poles are present simultaneously, and at other times they each find distinct expression in a different musical moment. Even on his first solo album, Blowin' Your Mind (which contained the iconic Brown-Eyed Girl) Van Morrison was wrestling with something thornier and deeper, as evidenced by the wrenching T.B. Sheets - a nine-minute opus about the discomfort of visiting a lover in a small room as she lies in bed, wracked with Tuberculosis. Those two songs, at artistic odds with each other and on the same album, are representative of the oppositional forces that fuel much of his work. Hage here provides a guide through all the layers of emotional meaning and musical resonance present in Morrison's work.

Author : Johnny Rogan
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Morrison written by Johnny Rogan and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2006 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Rogan presents a comprehensive portrait of an endlessly complicated man, his music, and the place he comes from. Over the last five decades, Van Morrison's music has embraced rock, folk, blues, country and jazz, and he remains a hugely influential artist as well as a conundrum of a man.

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390180
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When That Rough God Goes Riding written by Greil Marcus and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most dedicated cultural critics. This book is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.

Author : Ryan H. Walsh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221367
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astral Weeks written by Ryan H. Walsh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid experiments and film shoots, Astral Weeks is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place. One of LitHub's 15 Books You Should Read This March

Author : Van Morrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316212
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lit Up Inside written by Van Morrison and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century, the reader will find examples of all the features of the world that Van has created through his work: the back streets and mystic avenues; memories of childhood wonder and of adult work; the chime of church bells and the playing of the radio; the generous naming of other artists and the joy of solitude; love and sharp dealing; consolation and grace.

Author : Ritchie Yorke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994440068
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Morrison Into the Music written by Ritchie Yorke and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140295788
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can You Feel the Silence written by Clinton Heylin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Morrison is an enigma. The legendary rock star who wrote and recorded such influential albums as Astral Weeks and Moondance and has mesmerised millions live is also a reclusive and troubled man who'll do anything to avoid publicity. Through interviews with friends, through the music itself and through painstaking research, Clinton Heylin reveals for the first time the tensions in Morrison s life. From a Belfast childhood and marriage break up to the recording of classic songs and albums, this is Van Morrison laid bare.

Author : Van Morrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571353924
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keep 'Er Lit written by Van Morrison and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, "The Bard of Belfast".' Paul Muldoon If I ventured in the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dreams Keep 'Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and with others. Then there are the songs of memory and of childhood; songs about the natural world and about the perspectives it can provide on time. Taken together with Lit Up Inside , this volume gives an overview of his fifty-year career, revealing why he is celebrated as one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of our time.

Author : Van Morrison
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458492699
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Morrison Anthology (Songbook) written by Van Morrison and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 26 of the very best from this brilliant singer/songwriter: Astral Weeks * Brown Eyed Girl * Domino * Gloria * Have I Told You Lately * Into the Mystic * Moondance * Real Real Gone * Wild Night * more.