{"id":6076,"date":"2024-11-13T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:57:29","slug":"arachnophonia-prince-the-last-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2024\/11\/arachnophonia-prince-the-last-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: “Prince – The Last Interview”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student assistant Griffin (class of 2027) and features a collection of various interviews with Prince<\/a>. Thanks, Griffin!<\/em><\/p>\n

Prince: The Last Interview and Other Conversations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Prince:<\/a><\/p>\n

Prince: The Last Interview<\/em><\/a> is a collection of interview articles curated to create a comprehensive story using primary sources for insight into the superstar\u2019s psyche. Nobody has had a bigger influence on modern American music than the Minnesotan native, bending the boundaries of genre. Born in 1958 and rising to international fame through the 80s and 90s, Prince<\/a>\u2019s sound couldn\u2019t be described by any classical music labels of music, mixing elements from jazz, funk, synth-pop, rock, and more. Despite his parents both being musicians, Prince<\/a> claims they never influenced his musical development. Instead, he was influenced by musicians such as James Brown<\/a>, Sly and the Family Stone<\/a>, Jimi Hendrix<\/a>, and Stevie Wonder<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Introduced by Hanif Abdurraqib<\/a> and by the interviewee Prince, Prince: The Last Interview and Other Conversations<\/em> <\/a>pulls together interviews at different stages of his life that begin to unravel the mysterious persona that was known to have an adverse relationship with the media. The collection gives us a glimpse of the icon from back from an interview in his school\u2019s newspaper where his tremendous talent began to be recognized, through the struggles and freedom from the Warner Bros. Records label, his adaption to the computer age, and even his veganism. <\/p>\n

Despite his tragic early death in 2016, Prince\u2019s impact can\u2019t be underestimated. Prince: The Last Interview<\/em><\/a> showcases the artist’s thoughts on identity, freedom, religion, the art industry, sexual expression, forgiveness, and most of all how he continued to evolve his beliefs but not falter from them. If you want to know more about this generational talent who experiments with multiple types of artistic expression, you can check out the book from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[231704,15223,15242],"tags":[61217,231411,231577,231579,231581,61206,231578,61343,231580],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia-arachnophonia","category-collection","category-promotional","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-24-25","tag-griffin-m","tag-hanif-abdurraqib","tag-interviews","tag-prince","tag-prince-rogers-nelson","tag-rock-music","tag-rock-musicians"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-1A0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}