Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-0129-3 • Hardback • December 2014 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Scott Calhoun directs the U2 Conference, is curator for the U2: Made in Dublin exhibit, and is professor of writing and literature at Cedarville University.
U2 Above, Across, and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Assessments
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: U2 TRANS-
Scott Calhoun
1 Collaborative Transactions: Making Sense (Again) for U2’s Achtung Baby
Christopher Wales
2 Transvaluing Adam Clayton: Why the Bass Matters in U2’s Music
Brian F. Wright
3 Translating Genres: U2’s Embrace of Electronic Dance Music in the 1990s
Ed Montano
4 A Transcendent Desire: In Defense of U2’s Irishness
Arlan Elizabeth Hess
5 A Transmedia Storyworld: The Edge Is One, But Not The Same
Fred Johnson
6 Transgressive Theology: The Sacred and the Profane at U2's PopMart
Theodore Louis Trost
7 Transmitting Memories: U2’s Rituals for Creating Communal History
Steve Taylor
8 The Transformative Fan: The Bricolage of U2 Live
Matthew J. Hamilton
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index
There is ample (and stimulating) intellectual discussion of the Irish band’s ‘proclivity for change’ in a world that doesn’t always welcome it. And each of the eight articles (none longer than thirty pages) makes for an easy-to-digest, hour-long patch of premiere rock and roll reading.
— AXS.com