The Art of Nick Cave

Introduction: Nick Cave, Twenty-First Century Man - John H. Baker

PART I: Cave, the Songwriter

Chapter 1: 'Into My Arms': Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman's Call - Peter Billingham

Chapter 2: The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment - Carl Lavery

Chapter 3: 'The College Professor Says It': Using Nick Cave's Lyrics in the University Classroom - Paul Lumsden

Chapter 4: A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - David Pattie

PART II: Murder Ballads



Chapter 5: 'Executioner-Style': Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition - Nick Groom

Chapter 6: In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave's 'Stagger Lee' - Dan Rose

PART III: Film and Theatre

Chapter 7: 'You Won't Want the Moment to End': Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport - Karoline Gritzner

Chapter 8: Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead - Rebecca Johinke

Chapter 9: 'People Just Ain't No Good': Nick Cave's Noir Western, The Proposition - William Verrone

PART IV: Influences

Chapter 10: Nick Cave and Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy - Isabella van Elferen

Chapter 11: The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version - Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

Chapter 12: Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart - Sarah Wishart

PART V: Sacred and Profane

Chapter 13: 'There is a Kingdom': Nick Cave, Christian Artist? - John H. Baker

Chapter 14: 'The Time of Our Great Undoing': Love, Madness, Catastrophe and the Secret Afterlife of Romanticism in Nick Cave's Love Songs - Steven Barfield Chapter 15: From 'Cute Cunts' to 'No Pussy': Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred - Fred Botting