Hymns to the Silence Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison [Hardcover]

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