The words and music of Alanis Morissette. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karen Fournier.
• Authors: Fournier, Karen
• Contents: Series Foreword, by James E. PeroneAcknowledgments1. Theorizing MorissetteThe Limitations of "Anger" as an Interpretive ToolToward a Broader Analytical Approach2. "No Apologies" and "No Regrets": Pop BeginningsThe Making of a Teenage Pop DivaConstructing Alanis as the Virgin-VixenAlanis (1991)Fulfilling Contractual Obligations with a Second AlbumNow Is the Time (1992)Awards and Commercial Response3. "You Live, You Learn": Rise to FameAbandoning Alanis, Becoming MorissetteMusical Context: Grunge, Punk, riot grrrl, and Female Indie RockA New Performance Aesthetic and Songwriting ApproachJagged Little Pill (1995)Jagged Little VideosAwards and Commercial Response4. "Thank U India": Spirituality Tempers the "Angry Young Woman"Taking, Then Waking from, a "Conceptual Nap"Spirituality and "Wholeness" as New ThemesSupposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)Junkie VideosAwards and Commercial ResponsePlaying God (with Kevin Smith)5. "Hist'ry Under Rug Swept": Moving on without Glen BallardActingActivism and AdvocacyUnder Rug Swept (2002)Rug Swept VideosFeasting on ScrapsSo-Called Chaos (2004)Chaos VideosAwards and Commercial Response6. "Giggling Again for No Reason": A Return to PopCelebrating a Jagged Little DecadeGuy Sigsworth and a New Creative PartnershipFlavors of Entanglement (2008)Entanglement VideosMarriage, Motherhood, and Breaking with MaverickHavoc and Bright Lights (2012)Havoc and Bright Lights VideosAwards and Commercial ResponseJagged Little Pill on Broadway as "Miss Thing" Turns 40DiscographyNotesBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 782.42166092; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Music -- Individual Composer & Musician; Music; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216167792
• Related ISBNs: 9781440830686
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