William Echard. Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 [Book Review]
Andrew Padgett
10.4225/03/5922496ada6b1
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/William_Echard_Neil_Young_and_the_Poetics_of_Energy_Bloomington_Indiana_University_Press_2005_Book_Review_/5005109
Neil Young is an ideal object for popular music scholarship, not only because of the volume of work that he has produced over his long career William Echards study, for instance, cites no fewer than 40 of the albums Young produced between 1966 and 2003, a figure that does not even cover his entire output but also because of the eclecticism of his work, which allows Echard to draw on a wide range of theoretical models in searching for the stable Neil Young identity that he believes underpins Youngs music. As a result of these dual considerations, Echards book would have been capable of serving not only as a comprehensive introduction to Neil Youngs music, but also as a study of contemporary popular music scholarship. In the first respect, the book succeeds. There are, however, a number of significant weaknesses with Echards study that ensure it fails on the second count.<br>
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Neil Young
Music studies
popular music
American music
Literary Studies not elsewhere classified