Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the
growing field of U2 studies. Edited by Scott Calhoun, with a
foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, Exploring U2 contains selections from
the 2009 inaugural gathering of "The Hype and The Feedback: A
Conference Exploring The Music, Work and Influence of U2." In
keeping with U2's own efforts to remove barriers that have long
prevented dialogue for understanding and improving the human
experience, this collection of essays examines U2 from perspectives
ranging from the personal to the academic and is accessible to
curious music fans, students, teachers, and scholars alike. Four
sections organize sixteen essays from leading academics, music
critics, clergy, and fans. From the academic disciplines of
literature, music, philosophy, and theology, essays study U2's
evolving use of source material in live performances, the layering
of vocal effects in signature songs, the crafting of a spiritual
community at live concerts, U2's success as a business brand,
Bono's rhetorical presentation of Africa to the Western consumer,
and readings of U2's work for irony, personhood, hope,
conservatism, and cosmic-time. Official band biographer Neil
McCormick considers U2 as a Dublin-shaped band, and Danielle
Rheaume tells how discovering and returning Bono's lost briefcase
of lyrics for the album October propelled her along her own
artistic journey. This thoughtful and timely collection recognizes
U2's music both as art and commentary on personal journeys and
cultural dialogues about contemporary issues. It offers insights
and critical assessments that will appeal not only to scholars and
students of popular music and culture studies but to those in the
fields of theology, philosophy, the performing arts, literature,
and all intellectually curious fans of U2.
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