Nick Cave
A Study of Love, Death and Apocalypse
$187.84
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2012
Summary
This volume analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms of his written work, the novels and plays and poetry and lyrics that he continues to produce, but also the music itself. Covering more than three decades of extraordinarily diverse creativity, the book has seven chapters focusing on: the modes in which Cave engages with the Bible; the total depravity of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781908049674 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1908049677 |
| Author: | Roland Boer |
| Publisher: | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Studies in Popular Music |
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Critics Review
Boer tackles Nick Cave’s work with a discipline and love that I, as a fan of both men, am grateful for.
Barry Taylor, Fuller Theological Seminary, Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts
The book will continue to inspire both scholarship about Cave and about the place of the obviously religious in the performances of popular culture.
Literature and Aesthetics
About The Author
Roland Boer
Roland Boer is Research Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author most recently of Marxist Criticism of the Bible (2003) and Symposia: Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation (2007) and the editor of Secularism and Biblical Studies (2010).
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