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Traveling : on the path of Joni Mitchell  Cover Image Book Book

Traveling : on the path of Joni Mitchell / Ann Powers.

Powers, Ann, 1964- (author.).

Summary:

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer's childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Along this journey, Powers' wide-ranging musings on the artist's life and career reconsider the biographer's role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062463722 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An A Capella book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Mitchell, Joni > Fiction.
Composers > Canada > Biography > Fiction.
Composers > Canada > Fiction.
Singers > Canada > Biography > Fiction.
Women composers > Canada > Biography > Fiction.
Women singers > Canada > Biography > Fiction.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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