Kate Bush and Hounds of Love

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Kate Bush is widely respected as one of the most unique solo female performers to have ever emerged in the field of popular music. She has achieved that rare combination of great commercial success and critical acclaim, with Hounds of Love considered widely to be her masterpiece. The album regularly features in 'best album' lists, and in the 2004 Observer poll was the highest placed work by a solo female artist. The album allows the author, Ron Moy, the critical opportunity to explore a wide range of issues relating to technology, production, authorship, grain of the voice, iconography, critical and commercial impact, collaboration, gender, sexuality, narrative, and social and cultural context. Cover Contents General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Her Early Work The Kick Inside Lionheart Never for Ever The Dreaming Part Two: Hounds of Love Commercial Context and Critical Reception of Hounds of Love The Conceptual Work Ideas and Influences Hounds of Love Summary A Daughter of Albion?: Kate Bush and Mythologies of Englishness Genealogy Creative Influences Accent and ‘The Grain of the Voice’ Language and Register Style Indicators Kate Bush and Auteur Theory From Ingénue to Auteur Shades and Degrees of Authorship Audio Texts, Video Texts: Extensions or Detractions? The Society of the Specular Pop Video: History and Developments An Overview of Kate Bush’s Early Videos Hair of the Hound Coming to Terms with Video The Sensual World: The Video The Line, The Cross and The Curve Part Three: Her Later Work The Whole Story The Period Leading up to The Sensual World The Sensual World This Woman’s Work The Period Leading up to The Red Shoes The Red Shoes The Period Leading up to Aerial Aerial: A Sea of Honey A Sky of Honey Coda: We Become Panoramic Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z