Description
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn about Van Morrisonâs life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - âBrown Eyed Girlâ, âCleaning Windowsâ and âThe Healing Gameâ. Others are less familiar.
Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career, starting from the Them period and extending through his solo albums. These readings show how thinking about Morrisonâs use of place provides a specific lens that contributes to a greater understanding of his art. The songs are organized into chapters that reflect many of the important places in Morrisonâs work as he ventured professionally and imaginatively away from the places of his upbringing towards a wider musical world. These places are in city streetscapes and country landscapes â in home places of streets and ditches, in the enclosed spaces of
