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Length7h 26m
About this audiobook
Contributions by Ignatius Calabria, H. Zahra Caldwell, Brian Jude de Lima, Sabatino DiBernardo, William Fulton, Antonio Garfias, Judson L. Jeffries, Tony Kiene, Molly Reinhoudt, Fred Shaheen, and Karen Turman
With his signature blend of genres and lyrics that touch on myriad societal issues, the artist Prince has challenged and captivated the minds and hearts of countless listeners.
Feel My Big Guitar: Prince and the Sound He Helped Create is a wide-ranging collection that seeks to place Prince at the center of contemporary musical scholarship, putting him in proper cultural and political context. This edited volume includes a mix of essays and reflections by scholars and fans, as well as interviews with people who worked with and knew Prince personally. Employing a blend of methodologies, contributors offer a body of fresh, intriguing, thought-provoking, and mind-bending work about Prince—an artist whose music exemplified those very characteristics.
The volume examines Prince's musical influences, his rivalries (both real and imagined), and instrumental eroticism. It includes enlightening interviews with early mentor Pépe Willie and Gayle Chapman, Prince's first female bandmate. These personal reflections and interviews grant readers a unique lens through which to view Prince, enriching our overall understanding of the man. Ultimately,
Feel My Big Guitar serves as a space for sharing musicological analysis and memories about an artist whose work has touched and inspired so many. Years in the making, this is the first book in an ongoing scholarly project,
PrincEnlighteNmenT: A Study of Society through Music, intended to investigate and reveal the full spectrum of Prince's life and work.
Audiobook details
GenreOther
Length7 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byVince Cook
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
9Chapter 6: From the Early Days of Rock and Roll to the Minneapolis Sound and Beyond: Pepé Willie Talks about His Life in the Business
2Introduction
10Section II: Musicology and Instrumental Eroticism
3Section I: Influences and Rivalries (Real or Imagined)
11Chapter 7: "The Ways He Could Live Different Lives": Performative Multiplicity, Identity Play, and Studio Autonomy in Prince's 1980s Recordings
4Chapter 1: Fire It Up!: Prince, Rick James, Rivalry, Race, Punk Funk, and the Minneapolis Sound
12Chapter 8: Erotic Cities: Instrumental Anthropomorphism
5Chapter 2: Haze and Rain: Exploring the Influence of Jimi Hendrix on Prince
13Chapter 9: Sign o' the Times in D(Construction) Minor: Variations on an S Theme
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6Chapter 3: Zoot Suits and New Jack Swing: Morris Day's Dandyism
14Chapter 10: My Pop Life: One Man's Journey to the Dawn
7Chapter 4: Clouds, Colors, and the Wonder of U: The Influence of Joni Mitchell on Prince
15Conclusion
8Chapter 5: Before the Revolution: A Conversation with Gayle Chapman
16Closing Credits