Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy (Musical Meaning and... - Echard, William

Neil Young and the Poetics of EnergyAuthor(s): William Echard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253217684, 978-0253217684\nSynopsis\n\""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\n 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 meaningan encounter from which both emerge transformed.