Kate Bush and Hounds of Love - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. 148 Pages Indexed. No defects noted to this as new book with flawless interior text pages. Kate Bush is widely respected as one of the most unique solo female performers to have ever emerged in the field of popular music. She has achieved that rare combination of great commercial success and critical acclaim, with "Hounds of Love" considered widely to be her masterpiece. The album regularly features in best album lists, and in the 2004 Observer poll was the highest placed work by a solo female artist. The album allows the author, Ron Moy, the critical opportunity to explore a wide range of issues relating to technology, production, authorship, grain of the voice, iconography, critical and commercial impact, collaboration, gender, sexuality, narrative, and social and cultural context. Contents in Three Parts: Introduction. Part 1 Her Early Work: The kick inside; Lionheart; Never for ever; The dreaming. Part 2 Hounds of Love: Hounds of love; A daughter of Albion?: Kate Bush and mythologies of Englishness; Kate Bush and auteur theory; Audio texts, video texts; extensions or detractions?; Hair of the hound; The sensual world: the video; The line, the cross and the curve. Part 3 Her Later Work: The sensual world; The red shoes; Aerial;