KW-42-2025: Am 14. Oktober beginnt die Buchmesse in Frankfurt a.M. /Germany. Vorgestellt werden auch neue Bücher über Leonard Cohen – Teil 1

The World of Leonard Cohen Gebundene Ausgabe – 29. Januar 2026

Englisch Ausgabe von David R Shumway (Herausgeber)
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is still growing five years after his death. In The World of Leonard Cohen, a team of international scholars and writers explore the various dimensions of the artist’s life, work, persona, and legacy to offer an authoritative and accessible summation of Cohen’s extraordinary career. His relation to key themes and topics – Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zen and the East, the Folk tradition, Rock and roll, Canadian and World literature, film -are all addressed. The World of Leonard Cohen offers a comprehensive, uniquely informed and wholly fresh account of this iconic songwriter and artist, whose singular voice has permanently altered our cultural landscape.

Pressestimmen

‚Leonard Cohen holds a singular place within the story of American popular music as a fully successful polymath who lounged seductively and neurotically at the center of the singer-songwriter movement while maintaining his stance as an outsider: a poet first, a Canadian, a Jewish seeker who was at once more natural and more steadfast in that role than most. The World of Leonard Cohen reveals the many facets of this elusive character, reminding readers than he is much more than the purveyor of the contemporary hymn ‚Hallelujah.‘ With its broad scope and many divergent voices, this anthology rightly celebrates one of music’s most fascinating public intellectuals.‘ Ann Powers, author of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

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A serious and engaging exploration of the artist’s life, work, persona, and legacy by leading scholars and writers.

Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende

David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies. He wrote Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014), and contributed to The World of Bob Dylan (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, and The Cambridge Companion to the The Singer-Songwriter.

 

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Leonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is still growing five years after his death. In The World of Leonard Cohen, a team of international scholars and writers explore the various dimensions of the artist’s life, work, persona, and legacy to offer an authoritative and accessible summation of Cohen’s extraordinary career. His relation to key themes and topics – Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zen and the East, the Folk tradition, Rock and roll, Canadian and World literature, film -are all addressed. The World of Leonard Cohen offers a comprehensive, uniquely informed and wholly fresh account of this iconic songwriter and artist, whose singular voice has permanently altered our cultural landscape.

KW-42-2025: Am 14. Oktober beginnt die Buchmesse in Frankfurt a.M. /Germany. Vorgestellt werden auch neue Bücher über Leonard Cohen – Teil 2

Rags of Light: Leonard Cohen and the Landscape of Biblical Imagination (Short Theological Engagements with Popular Music)

von Brian J. Walsh (Autor), J. Richard Middleton

Creatively bringing the songs, prayers, and poetry of Leonard Cohen into conversation with Scripture, this book deeply grounds Cohen’s work in the landscape of the biblical imagination, paying special attention to Jesus together with the prophetic and priestly voices of Scripture. What emerges is a compellingly lyrical work of theology that deepens our understanding of both Cohen and biblical faith. Leonard Cohen has undoubtedly been a liturgist for our time, a cantor singing for all those clothed in rags of light, a prophet in the ruins, and a priest who greets us “from the other side of sorrow and despair.”

Pressestimmen

„Owing to his own familiarity with the biblical landscape as a Christian pastor, Brian Walsh ably shows that Cohen is best understood not as a secular saint, but as a post-secular poet who spoke both prophetic and priestly truths. The many Cohen fans who are also people of faith or spiritual seekers will find much to enjoy in this book.“
–Christian Raab, OSB, associate professor of theology, Saint Meinrad Seminary“Brian Walsh knows that the highest order of interpretation is responsive making. In Rags of Light, Walsh not only recognizes and argues for Leonard Cohen’s prophetic and priestly role, but makes Cohen’s music a usable liturgy–one profoundly helpful in our cultural moment. I emerge from its pages in song and prayer–ready to make my way through a landscape of both wonder and ruin–and not unaccompanied.“
–Tiffany Eberle Kriner, associate professor of English, Wheaton College

Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende

Brian J. Walsh is a theologian, farmer, and award-winning writer. He is the author of Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination (2011).

Produktinformation

  • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Cascade Books
  • Erscheinungstermin ‏ : ‎ 24. Oktober 2024
  • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 192 Seiten
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1666782130
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1666782134
  • Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.22 x 20.32 cm
  • Teil der Serie ‏ : ‎ Short Theological Engagements with Popular Music