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The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke! - Matthew Smith-Lahrman

The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!

Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7175-2 (ISBN)
CHF 35,90 inkl. MwSt
Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock ’n’ roll band of the last four decades. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.
In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock ’n’ roll band of the last forty years. Smith-Lahrman covers Kirkwood’s lyrics on nine albums, from 1983 to 1995, when he wrote virtually every lyric for the band. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.

The original Meat Puppets spent their early career releasing albums on the seminal indie rock label SST Records, moving on to the major label London Records in the early 1990s. Along the way they forged a unique blend of punk, country, psychedelic, and hard rock that paved the way for the grunge and alternative movements. As a lyricist, Kirkwood commonly addresses the individual psyche and behavioral expectations, drug use, mental illness, and Christianity. As the original Meat Puppets began to dissolve, Kirkwood turned to writing about personal issues: his frustrations with the major label industry, the death of his mother, the addictions of his brother, and the demise of the band itself.

The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke! is the perfect work for Meat Puppets fans worldwide.

Matthew Smith-Lahrman is a professor of sociology at Utah Tech University in St. George, Utah.

1 Introduction: The Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood
2 Meat Puppets II
3 Up on the Sun
4 Out My Way
5 Mirage
6 Huevos
7 Monsters
8 Forbidden Places
9 Too High to Die
10 No Joke!
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 220 mm
Gewicht 445 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5381-7175-9 / 1538171759
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-7175-2 / 9781538171752
Zustand Neuware
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