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Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician,
novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From
the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word
recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently
acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman
project (2008), Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a
comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has
shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media
interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive
appraisals of his work, its significance and its impact on
understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence, the
present volume is both timely and necessary. Cultural Seeds brings
together an international range of scholars and practitioners, each
of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave's
career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of
seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary
culture, but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often
separated in the academy and in the media. Topics include Cave and
the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The
Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his
interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays
offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the
fluidity of contemporary artistic practice.
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician,
novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From
the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word
recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently
acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman
project (2008), Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a
comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has
shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media
interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive
appraisals of his work, its significance and its impact on
understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence, the
present volume is both timely and necessary. Cultural Seeds brings
together an international range of scholars and practitioners, each
of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave's
career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of
seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary
culture, but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often
separated in the academy and in the media. Topics include Cave and
the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The
Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his
interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays
offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the
fluidity of contemporary artistic practice.
Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russel Award 2021Gail Jones: Word,
Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of Gail Jones,
the award-winning Australian author, essayist and academic. Drawing
together ideas from literature, art, philosophy and photography,
the volume presents a compelling analysis of Jones' literary
commitment to the political and the personal, and reflects on how
and why we interpret literary texts.An essential contribution to
the intersecting fields of Australian studies and international
literature, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics offers innovative
insights into the writing of one of Australia's most accomplished
authors.
Explores the interaction between literary culture & the public
sphere in Australia in a series of informative, witty, intelligent
& thought-provoking essays. Unearths the fascinating &
changing role that literature has played in Australia's sporting,
political, civic & cultural life. Genoni, Curtin Uni, WA, &
Dalziell, Uni of Western Australia.
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