Patti Smith
Outside
“Outside. Outside of society. That’s where I want to be. If you’re looking, that’s where you’ll find me.” This is what Patti Smith sang back in 1978. Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly reprinted, her paintings and photographs on show in galleries around the world, an induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a National Book Award for her first prose work, Just Kids. Is she still outside? Is she still the icon...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-393-6
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.10648
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2015
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-36781-175-8
Nombre de pages : 172
Carrie Noland
Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social DevianceAmélie Ducroux
Paths That Cross: When Poetry Meets Rock and RollUlara Toma
Patti Smith and Performative GenderClaude Chastagner
The Words and Sounds of Patti Smith: Bibliography, etc“Outside. Outside of society. That’s where I want to be. If you’re looking, that’s where you’ll find me.” This is what Patti Smith sang back in 1978. Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly reprinted, her paintings and photographs on show in galleries around the world, an induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a National Book Award for her first prose work, Just Kids. Is she still outside? Is she still the iconic, rebellious, rock’n’roll figure of her youth? Patti Smith has lived a rock’n’roll life, a life of words and sounds, of poetry and images. She has slept on doorsteps, on park benches. But perhaps she never meant to be outside. Perhaps she did not want to be a rebel. Perhaps being outside is only a price she had to pay.
These are the issues addressed in this collection of essays, not from a historical or sociological angle, but through her artistry. An attempt at locating Patti Smith by assessing her trajectory, her complex, unpredictable moves. “Oh I just move in another dimension,” she sings on “Ain’t It Strange”, before inviting us to come and join her. We have tried and followed her.
Claude Chastagner (dir.)
Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3.
Claude Chastagner teaches American popular culture at Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier, France. He specializes in rock, and the music of ethnic communities in the United States, from bhangra to zydeco. His publications include De la culture rock (PUF, 2011), Révoltes et utopies: militantisme et contre culture dans l’Amérique des années soixante (PUF, 2011), and ‘Zappa and Resistance: The Pleasure Principle, ’ in Zappa and the And, Paul Carr, ed., (London, Ashgate Popular, 2013).
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