@inbook{524effba4b1f4dfb94ba3686107ea5a6,
title = "“Little crimeworn histories”: Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom",
abstract = "This chapter investigates the music of Nick Cave as a case study in a Romantic story of rock stardom that structures hegemonic productions, receptions, and representations of rock music and artists. As a kind of character and a kind of career, the rock star develops between a Byronic aesthetic of transgression and an ambivalent relation to music tradition, between a Romantic ethos of anti-capitalism and the attainment of commercial prosperity. To reconcile the rock star{\textquoteright}s Romantically conditioned contradictions, and to legitimize the star{\textquoteright}s achievement of success through excess, the rock formation has constructed and popularized a redemption narrative that propels the rock artist-protagonist through a three-part plot: from Roots, through Raves, to Rehab.",
keywords = "Murder Ballads, Nick Cave, Popular Music, Rock Star, Welberry",
author = "McCutcheon, {Mark A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, The Author(s).",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-72688-5_6",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature",
pages = "101--120",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature",
}
