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Book SynopsisThis book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2’s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and progress.
Trade ReviewThere 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 *
Table of ContentsU2 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
