The Songs of Joni Mitchell

Karppinen, Anne

doi:10.4324/9781315552606

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Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care

Behan

2023

J Soc American Mus

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Joni Mitchell's life was completely transformed in 1965–67: She became pregnant, was abandoned by the child's father, gave birth to her daughter, placed her baby for adoption, married and subsequently divorced Chuck Mitchell, and moved between several cities in North America. In this article, I center this often overlooked period of Joni's life—which she herself has referred to as “this three-year period of childhood's end”—and move away from the usual focus on her studio albums. I contextualize this discussion within 1960s counterculture and examine how these turbulent changes are refracted through her music making, specifically through a selection of early recordings of her song “Urge for Going.” In so doing, I seek alternatives to the prevalent and influential theories of musical persona in popular music studies, arguing instead for the merits of an approach which strives for an intellectual disposition of care.

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Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care

Behan

2023

J Soc American Mus

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“Both Sides Now”: Folk-Rock Authorship, Interpretation, and the Cover Version

Bannister

2023

Popular Music and Society

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“Both Sides Now”: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968–1976

Green

Kaiser

Doty

et al. 2019

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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The singer–songwriter–artist Joni Mitchell (née Anderson, born on November 7, 1943) is recognized in the worlds of music and fashion alike for her creative influences since the late 1960s. In this article, we share the findings from a critical discourse analysis of the lyrics and album art produced by Mitchell between 1968 and 1976. We consider how she represented a philosophy of “Both Sides Now” (i.e., both/and thinking) as she articulated—in words as well as visual art—three dynamic and unresolvable contradictions that provide new insights for fashion theory: (a) domesticity and worldliness, (b) bourgeois capitalism and bohemianism, and (c) beauty and destruction. In the process of articulating ambivalences and contradictions, Mitchell reveals how cultural power relations associated with gender, sexuality, age, and class (and their intersectionalities) intervene through textiles, clothing, and fashioned bodies.

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The Songs of Joni Mitchell

Cited by 6 publications

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Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care

Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care

“Both Sides Now”: Folk-Rock Authorship, Interpretation, and the Cover Version

“Both Sides Now”: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968–1976

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