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The Songs of Joni Mitchell: Gender, Performance and Agency book cover

1st Edition

The Songs of Joni Mitchell Gender, Performance and Agency

By Anne Karppinen Copyright 2016
220 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically feminine and, if so, to what extent and why? Anne Karppinen addresses this question focusing on... Read more

Introduction

Part 1

1. Sexual Difference, Texts and Discourses

2. Will you take me as I am? Subjectivity, Autobiography and Authorship

3. Women in Rock and Other Oxymorons

Part 2

4. The Early Period (1968-1970)

5. The Self-Conscious Period (1971-1974)

6. The Socially Conscious Period (1975-1977)

Part 3

7. A Soprano Has No Credibility? Joni Mitchell and the Rock Press

8. The Singer-Songwriter and the Making of the Canon

Conclusion

Appendix: Tunings.

Bibliography

Index

　　

Biography

Anne Karppinen is a university teacher, translator and musician. She earned her MA in English and her PhD in Contemporary Culture from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She teaches English at The Open University of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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