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His name was Prince: a study of Diamonds and Pearls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Anne Danielsen
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The album Diamonds and Pearls had recently been released when I started working on this study of Prince's music. It had not, therefore, obtained the many layers of personal history which enveloped the earlier albums by Prince in my collection. In addition, it seemed to me an absolutely contemporary record: an exemplary sign of the times which would be able to say something in general about our time. But my initial question was simply: what characterises Prince's music?

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Popular Music , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , October 1997 , pp. 275 - 291
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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