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Prince’s Anxiety of Influence and ‘Purple Rain’ in the Context of ‘80s Pop Music

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A friend has sent you the following article from PopMatters.com Features: Prince’s Anxiety of Influence and ‘Purple Rain’ in the Context of ‘80s Pop Music by James Fleming 04 June 2009 Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence notes how that we often attribute artistic success to being able to reconstruct our influences to create something unique, yet, as we all know, it's much more complex than that. Analyzing similar conceptual ground covered by the Police and Michael Jackson prior to Purple Rain, James Fleming dissects Prince's reaction to these other artists landmark songs, and how he was able to manifest these other pop monoliths into his own, reactionary style. Link: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/94059-maybe-im-just-like-my-father-princes-anxiety-of-influence-and-purple-/ PopMatters Popular Voices, Cultural Matters http://www.popmatters.com/

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