Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison (Paperback)

Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction Chapter One Imagining America: Jazz, Blues, Country, and the Mythologies of the West Chapter Two What Makes the Irish Heart Beat? The Irishness of Van Morrison Chapter Three Get the Words on the Page: Van Morrison as Writer Chapter Four Caught One More Time: Themes and Thematics Chapter Five Listening to the Lion: Van Morrison as a Singer Chapter Six On the Burning Ground: Liveness and the Recording Studio Chapter Seven Down the Road: Van Morrison, Exile, and the Idea of Eternal Movement Chapter Eight A Three Cornered Quartet: Van Morrison and the Art of Through Composition Postscript Make It Real One More Time Again: Astral Weeks Live Appendix One - The 2006 Shows Appendix Two - Recording Studios Bibliography Discography