It will be detailed like a dissertation and/or thesis. This is one of my my goals. It will take 1 year of solid writing and research in depth like no other to do it. It wont be an expose or a book with interviews of band members. It will be a scholarly work. Nobody may care by the time it is finished. It will hurt,the work I put into it.I will get dogged but it is my passion and it will be done.

And Berry will say you don't have a right to do it.

You totally need to do it! I'd buy a copy.

Supernova said:

And Prince might be hurt by your scholarly writings & stuff...

Moonbeam said:

It will be free..a thesis. Available in any academic library. Im not kidding. I am going to do this. He is already part of a research project.
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Supernova said:

CalhounSq said:

He wont...believe me. I will give his music the recognition it deserves. Thats why I will get laughed at by those in academia. Because I will write a thesis on Prince. But I dont care who laughs..and I dont care if it seems like vicarious living. He and his music has moved me for 20 plus years. It has come to this.

rdhull said:

Yes, but what will Berry say??? :O

Ha! RD get in line!

Working on my prospectus this semester and we'll just see how I work P into it... gotta justify those trips to MPLS some how

You have full support from me...RD!

Just as long as the book contains ...

lots 'O FUNK & LOL's...

as I know it will.

U RULE

Fish

I wouldn't write a book about Prince, but I'd love to create something about the impact of his music on various characters, as in a play or novel. The problem with that is that I'm afraid he would not let me use the music on stage or in the movie.

There's a book waiting to be written about us crazy Prince fans.
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Aerogram said:

heh personally I think the fans are more interesting than the man you could write an interest play about some of the people on the Org

rdhull said:

Didn't someone else do this recently? Possessed anyone?

Why wait? No time like the present.

A scholarly collection of what he has made public is a lot different then a book about his private life.
Already, this sounds like a book that is much more supportable. "a thesis or disertation"...

So far, it sounds like something I would very much support. Some of you obviously have not understood a word I have written regarding books...

You know, you don't have to flame outwardly to be inconsiderate and hurtful.

Aerogram said:

This is another GREAT idea that I would fully support. Write it Aero so I can audition We will take it to Broadway!

Berry said:

Once upon a time, Berry was... less dramatic

Lighten up, woman!

ian said:

Shockadelica Corridor, anyone?

Berry said:

There's a difference between poking fun at someone in a few posts and flaming someone. Mellow out.

Ok. Poking is ok. I've been flamed a bit lately... I'm a tad sensitive

And being dramatic is what I do, I'm an actor

Berry said:

I know, I know sometimes it's cool to leave the drama on the stage, get lost in the mellow...

Berry said:

Quit "acting" dramatic




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...ahem...it's called being "passionate"...get it right

Berry said:

ahem..it's called just joking. YOU get it right.

RD...I'd buy it!


This might be only slightly on topic, but if you are seriously planning on doing this, you should pick up a book called "XTC : Song Stories" by Neville Farmer. THAT should definitely be the format of your book, RD!!

-SWANGain'tnowangsta

Berry said:

That's ok. I can be a bit sensitive too.


Ummm, it's time to come out of character.

I think Per Nilsen might have beaten u 2 the punch...better catch up now!

SWANG said:

Hmmm..There will be no need to buy it. This will be an APA style with thesis-dissertation that is free to the public. Although I appreciate the info on format etc I have ideas already etc. There will bne in depth coverage of image, female-male perspectives in his music, culture influences , etc..and those will be backed with in depth "empirical"--"empirical" being the main emphasis here.

Example:

The embracing of the femine in the lyrics and image has been one of the areas that Prince has entered and challenged, which may be part of his appeal since in African American culture, the feminine aspects of image being on display in men at least publicly has largely been frowned upon ( Hooks & Saunders, 1963: Daniels & Messer, 1976: James, 1984) or cause of dismissal by those of that culture. Jean Harris' (1987) theory of the male-feminen perspective in popular culture has ascribed the differences in those artists such as Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Little Richard (Richard Penniman) as part of a way of taking the influence of socialized mores' denied by a society Collins, 1980) that actually appeals to a certain faction of a society that will accept them with a willingness that masks their own denials of their personality from their culture (Debbin, 1993).

Like that I just made up as an example of the APA empirical style. This isn't going to be a Pop Culture read. I shouldnt give away my ideas-methods. Now watch someone beat me to it


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paisleypark4 said:

Pers' is a pop culture read, albeit a heavily and thoroughly researched one and I love it, its my fave of the Prince books , but mine is going to be empirically based and from an academic perspective etc.

rdhull said


Then why did my dumb ass title the thread "...book...."

rdhull

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