{"product_id":"u2-above-across-and-beyond-9781498501316","title":"U2 Above Across and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eU2 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","brand":"Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040619233623,"sku":"9781498501316","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498501316.jpg?v=1750947296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/u2-above-across-and-beyond-9781498501316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}