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Music 106: The Life and Music of Kate Bush

http://www.lovelylivinguniversity.com/group/music-106

September 2016

Course Objective:

We’ll learn about Kate Bush’s life, her early music education and schooling, how she got her big break, and how her career took off. We’ll explore all her albums, listening to each one and reading over her lyrics. We’ll learn a bit about her personal life, her comeback tour in 2014, and what she might be up to next.

Textbook: Optional: Kate Bush – Under the Ivy, by Graeme Thomson (2015)

https://www.amazon.com/Kate-Bush-Under-Graeme-Thomson-ebook/dp/B00OQEA57Y

WEEK 1: September 1-7 – The Kick Inside (1978); Lionheart (1978)

Homework:

Participate in at least two classroom forum discussions this week.

Read over Kate Bush’s lyrics to the songs on each album as you listen to them this week.

Learn one song from one of these albums and sing it often at home, whether you’re alone, with family, in the shower, in the kitchen, while doing housework, in the car, etc. Sing it with fervor!

Live Chat:

Wednesday, September 7, 6pm PST to 7pm PST (9pm EST to 10pm EST)

http://www.lovelylivinguniversity.com/events/music-106-chat-1

Readings:

A Brief Chronology of Kate’s Career

http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/leaving-her-tracks/

Kate Bush Biography at MTV

http://www.mtv.com/artists/kate-bush/biography/

Kate Bush Biography at NME.com

http://www.nme.com/artists/kate-bush

Kate Bush – A Crash Course for the Non-Believer

https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/03/kate-bush-a-crash-course-for-the-non-believer/

Kate Bush: Her Childhood in Pictures

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11230537/Kate-Bush-her-childhood-in-pictures.html

Exploring Kate Bush’s 2nd Generation Irish Heritage

http://irishpost.co.uk/kate-bushs-irish-heritage-inspiration-of-folk-music-and-highly-anticipated-live-return/

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-kate-bushs-wuthering-heights

The Storytelling Quality of Kate Bush’s Music

http://the-artifice.com/kate-bush-music/

Videos:

The Kick Inside full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2mt7_Xe7Lg

Lionheart full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFA1J4Ua1k

Kate Bush Interview 1978 (6.5 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCdqI-5Qh4

The Kate Bush Story (2014 BBC Documentary; 59 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4sLwt8mhZs

Kate Bush Nationwide BBC Documentary (1979; 25 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgW_dYrZWj8

Kate Bush – The Tour of Life – Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1979 (53 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A44wwRgzGuw

Kate Bush “Wow” on Top of the Pops (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkfQFnJbp3I

Wuthering Heights Official Videos #1 and #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

Extra Credit:

Kate Bush on the Abba in Switzerland Snowtime Special (1979; 4 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTI_23AuG20

Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979; 43 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0IRI5wdzI

Kate Bush on Delia Smith’s Cookery Show (1980; 5mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4dbK156NJ0

Kate Bush on Swap Shop 1979 (8 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4lIK9aS_E

Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights” on Top of the Pops, 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDlvOeWhXk

WEEK 2: September 8-15 – The 1980s - Never For Ever (1980); The Dreaming (1982); Hounds of Love (1985); The Sensual World (1989)

Homework:

Participate in at least two classroom forum discussions this week.

Read over Kate Bush’s lyrics to the songs on each album as you listen to them this week.

Learn one song from one of these albums and sing it often at home, whether you’re alone, with family, in the shower, in the kitchen, while doing housework, in the car, etc. Sing it enthusiastically!

Live Chat:

Wednesday, September 14, 6pm PST to 7pm PST (9pm EST to 10pm EST)

http://www.lovelylivinguniversity.com/events/music-106-chat-2

Readings:

The Great Lost Kate Bush Interview (1985)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-iorio/the-great-lost-kate-bush-_b_5009516.html

Kate Bush on David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, and the new Hounds of Love (1985)

https://earofnewt.com/2015/11/29/kate-bush-on-david-gilmour-pink-floyd-and-the-new-hounds-of-love/

Kate Bush Interview by MelodyMaker (1989)

http://gaffa.org/reaching/i89_mm.html

http://omshiva1967.blogspot.com/2014/05/1989-10-21-melody-maker.html?view=mosaic

30 Years On: The Dreaming by Kate Bush

http://thequietus.com/articles/09945-kate-bush-the-dreaming

Life of a Song: Running Up That Hill

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ae0b5612-6883-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f.html

Obsessive Secrecy, $30 Mil Fortune and the Trauma That Drove Kate Bush Into Hiding

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2138729/Obsessive-secrecy-30m-fortune-trauma-drove-Kate-Bush-hiding.html

The Untold Story of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love

http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/this-girl-is-very-very-tough-the-untold-story-of-kate-bush-s-hounds-of-love-4812

Videos:

Never for Ever full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enQSjLbG6I0

The Dreaming full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRKsrX5ycQ

Hounds of Love full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njw9fbs0b28

The Sensual World full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsbKeX_ZhDw

Army Dreamers Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZDKlpybZE

Babooshka Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c

Cloudbusting Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

The Dreaming Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Wa0LdCsvM

Hounds of Love Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VerK4zwMRQw

Running Up That Hill Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM

Kate Bush Night Flight Interview (1985; 37 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnLloAOBAs

Kate Bush at the BBC (1 hour)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9fb-otfHk

Kate Bush “And So is Love” on Top of the Pops (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHLPbEQ-hE

Kate Bush “Sat in Your Lap” on Top of the Pops (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3BfoYolh0

Kate Bush “Hounds of Love” on Top of the Pops (1980s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0KdYr1ys4

The Wedding List

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og4h3EqxuDw

Extra Credit:

Kate Bush and David Gilmour – Running Up That Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wc1R0AQ_M

Kate Bush Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing” Cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aL3PjNTqwU

Kate Bush “This Woman’s Work” on Terry Wogan Show (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEMal2eJx88

Mozartine “Running Up That Hill” Cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K__jHroSfpk

WEEK 3: September 16-22 – The 1990s and Early 2000s; The Red Shoes (1993); Aerial (2005)

Homework:

Participate in at least two classroom forum discussions this week.

Read over Kate Bush’s lyrics to the songs on each album as you listen to them this week.

Learn one song from one of these albums and sing it often at home, whether you’re alone, with family, in the shower, in the kitchen, while doing housework, in the car, etc. Sing it joyfully!

Live Chat:

Wednesday, September 21, 6pm PST to 7pm PST (9pm EST to 10pm EST)

http://www.lovelylivinguniversity.com/events/music-106-chat-3

Readings:

The Baffling, Alluring World of Kate Bush (1990)

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-28/entertainment/ca-1407_1_kate-bush

Kate Bush “Aplomb” Movie Review (1994)

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-01/entertainment/ca-10576_1_kate-bush

Kate Bush: Get Out Of My House

http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/58114190820/kate-bush-get-out-of-my-house-the-red

Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse (2005)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-bush-return-of-the-recluse-316516.html

Elton John Reveals Kate Bush Track Helped Him Kick His Addiction to Drink and Drugs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2720989/This-one-record-saved-life-Sir-Elton-reveals-Kate-Bush-track-helped-kick-addiction-drink-drugs.html

12 Things You Never Knew About Kate Bush

http://www.clashmusic.com/features/12-things-you-never-knew-about-kate-bush

Kate Bush Plans Comeback (2004)

http://www.ew.com/article/2004/12/27/kate-bush-plans-comeback

Siren of Pop Swoops Back (2004)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3633894/Siren-of-pop-swoops-back.html

Kate Bush – “I’m Not Some Weirdo Recluse” (2005)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/28/popandrock

Kate Bush – Reclusive? Actually, She Prefers the Term ‘Normal’ (2005)

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/30/entertainment/ca-bush30

This Woman’s Work: How Kate Bush Inspires Female Artists

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/mar/31/kate-bush-inspires-female-artists

When Prince Met Kate Bush

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/how-prince-met-kate-bush-and-made-why-should-i-love-you

Videos:

The Red Shoes full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4ZTkFZNFo

Aerial full album (A Sea of Honey; a Sky of Honey)

https://youtu.be/R3ZyPGnxgyY

King of the Mountain Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8xk_AkeP5c

The Red Shoes Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zB_kgWpC5o

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw

Kate Bush: Egos and Icons (1993; 30 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AtbKVoRa0

Kate Bush Interview (1993; 8 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMWT0dFNjQ

Extra Credit:

Kate Bush and Elton John “Candle in the Wind”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5NqItUu3xo

Kate Bush’s Elton John “Rocket Man” Cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjn1sNUnGyY

Peter Gabriel and Sinead O’Connor in Chile – Don’t Give Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxFclkJlIw

Peter Gabriel and Tracy Chapman – Don’t Give Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEspNd251kk

The Red Shoes 1948 inspiration

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/

WEEK 4: September 23-30 – Kate Bush Today; Director’s Cut (2011); 50 Words for Snow (2011)

Homework:

Participate in at least two classroom forum discussions this week.

Read over Kate Bush’s lyrics to the songs on each album as you listen to them this week.

Learn one song from one of these albums and sing it often at home, whether you’re alone, with family, in the shower, in the kitchen, while doing housework, in the car, etc. Sing it happily, challenge yourself to sing in front of people!

Live Chat:

Wednesday, September 28, 6pm PST to 7pm PST (9pm EST to 10pm EST)

http://www.lovelylivinguniversity.com/events/music-106-chat-4

Readings:

The Acts Keeping Kate Bush in the Spotlight (2011)

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13267548

Kate Bush at Interview Magazine (2011)

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/kate-bush/

Kate Bush Interview at Pitchfork Magazine (2011)

http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/7968-kate-bush/

Kate Bush: The Queen of Art Pop Who Defied Her Critics

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/21/kate-bush-queen-of-art-pop-defied-critics-london-concerts

One More Reason Americans Don’t Care About Kate Bush (2011)

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/08/16/139676470/one-more-reason-some-americans-dont-care-about-kate-bush

Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights to Mothering Nights (2011)

http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/235484/Kate-Bush-Wuthering-Heights-to-Mothering-Nights

Guido Harari’s Portraits of Kate Bush Document Their Ten Year Collaboration

http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/07/guido-hararis-portraits-of-kate-bush-document-their-ten-year-collaboration/

Kate Bush “Before the Dawn” Concert Review

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kate-bush-first-review-before-4112779

Kate Bush Comeback Greeted With Big Cheers

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28939245

Stage Shy Kate Bush Performs Live for First Time in 36 Years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2731399/She-s-planning-surreal-spectacular-But-stage-shy-Kate-Bush-performs-live-time-36-years-ask-Will-comeback-sink-swim.html

Kate Bush Returns to the Stage in Spectacular Fashion

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/kate-bush-returns-to-the-stage-in-spectacular-fashion-20140827

Kate Bush’s Secret Son Bertie Steps out of the Shadows

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2735757/Kate-Bushs-secret-son-steps-shadows-Bertie-16-takes-starring-role-comeback-concert-plans-musical-career-own.html

Kate Bush: How Bertie Inspired My Comeback

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11059514/Kate-Bush-how-Bertie-inspired-my-comeback.html

Kate Bush Lands Eight Albums on British Chart Following Comeback Shows

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kate-bush-british-albums-chart-20140902

Kate Bush to Be Celebrated with Scottish Festival in September 2016

http://www.nme.com/news/kate-bush/94769

Kate Bush Fans Around the World Get Their Wuthering Heights On

http://www.avclub.com/article/kate-bush-fans-around-world-get-their-wuthering-he-239768

Life Stories: Kate Bush

http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/547209/life-stories-kate-bush.html

My Hero: Kate Bush, by David Mitchell (2010)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/01/kate-bush-hero-david-mitchell

Wuthering Hell: There’s a Mass Kate Bush Danceathon in London This Weekend (2016)

http://www.timeout.com/london/blog/wuthering-hell-theres-a-mass-kate-bush-danceathon-in-london-this-weekend-071316

Videos:

Director’s Cut full album

https://youtu.be/9wBhUooY7jY

50 Words for Snow full album

https://youtu.be/8pocXNt9D64

Deeper Understanding Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqF_gBpS84

Rubberband Girl Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPK0Oy2b0MI

Kate Bush Interview About Director’s Cut (2011; 55 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7NeDujngDI

Kate Bush BBC Radio 4 Interview about 50 Words for Snow (2011; 17 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiB3wlT3IT8

The Vocal Range of Kate Bush

https://youtu.be/sEtD7fd_7mA

Extra Credit:

Adele Says That Kate Bush Inspired Her New Tour (2015)

http://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/

Curtain Falls on Kate Bush Comeback

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29456326

Elder Falls at Lake Tahoe Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPHA3_cBus

Kate’s Brother John on a Lifetime of Photographing His Sister

http://attitude.co.uk/interview-kate-bushs-brother-john-on-a-lifetime-documenting-his-sisters-work/

Kate Bush Live at Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in 2014 (58 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQcdfu10RmA

The Soul of Kate Bush: Theo Bleckmann’s Kate Bush Cover Album

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/03/149853522/theo-bleckmann-the-soul-of-kate-bush

Why Kate Bush is So Proud of Her Irish Roots

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/why-kate-bush-is-so-proud-of-her-irish-roots-30120956.html

END OF COURSE