Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition

by Larry David Smith

The torch song has long been a vehicle for expression--perhaps American song's most sheerly visceral one. Two artists in particular have built upon this tradition to express their own unique outlooks on their lives and the world around them. Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and the Torch Song Tradition combines biographical material, artist commentary, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the writers' work to reveal the power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973921
• ISBN13: 9780275973926
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.7"