(Paperback)

In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'. This book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. It looks at Morrison as a singer. It also looks at how he uses his voice as an interpretive instrument.

(Hardback)

Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.