New book: PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance

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New book: PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance

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By Abigail Gardner.

Introduction available on link:

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472424181

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Wiggins is so superbly unassuming, he looks like he's about to say 'Pop the gold medal in the post, I'm nipping out for some biscuits'

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Bloody Hell, I've just checked the price! Should have known with it being an academic, specialised book.
Wiggins is so superbly unassuming, he looks like he's about to say 'Pop the gold medal in the post, I'm nipping out for some biscuits'

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sau wrote:Bloody Hell, I've just checked the price! Should have known with it being an academic, specialised book.
Nice find! It's worth reading the 13 page Intro, which you can download as a pdf from the web site. Even the Index is interesting.

Maybe used copies will show up someday. That's how I got my copy of Burns and Lafrance's "Disuptive Divas" (2002).
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about 'The Devil' video:
[...] just two stills, and, in it, harvey performs as the upright/uptight victorian (governess)
the video consist in two photographs: one black and white, of her at an upright piano, gazing out; the other a profile. In both she is dressed tight, long-sleeved [...]
apparently made during Uh Huh Her album (?)
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