Research Catalog

Title

The words and music of Sting / Christopher Gable.

Author

Gable, Christopher, 1968-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2009.

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Description

xix, 144 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Words and Music of Sting subdivides Sting's life and works into rough periods of creative activity and offers a fantastic opportunity to view Sting's many stylistic changes within a coherent general framework. After analyzing Sting's musical output album by album and song by song, author Christopher Gable sums up Sting's accomplishments and places him on the continuum of influential singer-songwriters, showing how he differs from and relates to other artists of the same period. A discography, filmography, and bibliography conclude the work."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Praeger singer-songwriter collection, 1553-3484

Uniform Title

Praeger singer-songwriter collection.

Alternative Title

Sting

Subject

• Sting (Musician) > Criticism and interpretation
• Rock music > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-144), discography (p. [121]-124), filmography(p. [113]-120], and index.

Contents

The Police. Outlandos d'amour ; Reggatta de blanc ; Zenyatta mondatta ; Ghost in the machine -- Synchronicity to superstardom -- Going solo. The dream of the blue turtles ; Bring on the night -- Mother and father. --Nothing like the sun ; The soul cages -- Return. Ten summoner's tales ; Fields of gold and demolition man ; Mercury falling -- Hope and terror. Brand new day ; --All this time ; Sacred love.

ISBN

9780275993603 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008037530

OCLC

• 236329609
• SCSB-9936042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library