Description: "A holistic, academic assessment of Prince's life and legacy, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in which they were manifested through his recorded catalogue and audiovisual personae"--
Brief description: Mike Alleyneis a Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Reggae: The Golden Ageof Roots Reggae(2012) and contributing editor of Rhythm Revolution: A ChronologicalAnthology of American Popular Music - 1960s to 1980s(2015).
Review Quotes:
"Prince and Popular Music interrogates how each changed the other, offering a spectrum of approaches to an iconographic and enigmatic presence who graced any number of vibrant culture scenes with 40 years of innovation and invention. The contributors to this book got the music, and they got the look." --Benjamin Halligan, Director of the Doctoral College, University of Wolverhampton, UK
"In a detailed examination of one of the most important and eclectic popular artists of all time, Alleyne and Fairclough curate a wide range of perspectives which detail music, aesthetics, representation and politics. This impressively comprehensive study is essential to any study of Prince but is also an important contribution to musicology, celebrity studies, American studies, issues of identity, gender, race and more. The significance of Prince is reflected in the significance of this book." --Robert Edgar, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, York St John University, UK, and co-editor of Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019) "This collection from the first-ever Prince symposium offers a compelling look into a wealth of interdisciplinary research inspired by and devoted to a pop artist of rare depth and complexity. The diversity of scholarship herein is a fitting tribute to Prince's opulent creativity and unbound persona." --Albin Zak, Professor of Music, University at Albany, USA