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Title: Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy
Subtitle: Musical Meaning and Interpretation
Author: William Echard
Narrator: Michael Giorgio
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-13
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music
Publisher's Summary:
As a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, William Echard stages an encounter between Young's challenging and ever-changing work and current theories of musical meaning - an encounter from which both emerge transformed.
Echard roots his discussion in an extensive review of writings from the rock press as well as his own engagement as a fan and critical theorist. How is it that Neil Young is both a perpetual outsider and critic of rock culture, and also one of its most central icons? And what are the unique properties that have lent his work such expressive force? Echard delves into concepts of musical persona, space, and energy, and in the process illuminates the complex interplay between experience, musical sound, social actors, genres, styles, and traditions.
Listeners interested primarily in Neil Young, or rock music in general, will find a new way to think and talk about the subject, and readers interested primarily in musical or cultural theory will find a new way to articulate and apply some of the most exciting current perspectives on meaning, music, and subjectivity.
The book is published by Indiana University Press.
Critic Reviews:
"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist. That the artist is Neil Young, one of the most confounding and mysterious of rock stars, is an added bonus. Finally someone will explain what's been going on all these years!" (Daniel Cavicchi, author of
Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans)
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
it's in my collection!!!
Easier to hear than read!
Being as this is a critical study of the guy, hearing the narration really colors and gives life to the text. The narrator sounds like he's a fan, but doesn't sound like he's editorializing on the author's intent. Actually, the author provides a pretty unbiased view of an artist who's always changing his skin to suit the times. Learned some stuff I never knew before...and that's saying something...I've been a fan for years.
Not rock criticism, but a good academic study of a rock musician
Like Susan Fast's Led Zep book, Echard's book about Neil Young is a book by a college professor that is published by an academic publisher. It's an academic study. There are lots of footnotes.
So I hate to see this book criticized by reviewers for being what it is, an academic study. It is not for everyone. It is not INTENDED for everyone.
Once you realize that it defends highly original ideas about how guitar solos are meaningful artistic gestures, you can appreciate it for what it tries to be (semiotic analysis) and not what you might hope it is (rock criticism). And it's damn fine semiotic analysis.
I don't give it five stars because it doesn't give equal time to all phases of Neil Young's career.
A Fabulous Book
I'm a student at Carleton University in Ottawa Ontario where Dr. Echard teaches and I have to say that this book is an excellent tool for students of musical theory. I understand the reservations that others have for the book's readability as it does convey many of Dr.
