Pulling down barriers

Neil Peart, autobiographical confession and negotiated rock celebrity

Bibliographic Data

ID5675488
AuthorsLeslie Barron (0000-0001-8011-1365, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Lee Barron
Year2016
Volume7
Issue3
Pages323-338
Publication date2016-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCelebrity Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19392397.2015.1120679
OpenAlexW2271486361
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article examines the confessional (using Redmond’s conception of the celebrity confessional discourse) and autobiographical writing of the music celebrity Neil Peart, the drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush. Examining Peart’s now-extensive corpus of professionally-published writing, the article explores the perception of a subcultural celebrity’s self-reflective view of fame and fandom and how this celebrity status is renegotiated into a position of professional work. The article explores the concept of the parasocial relationship with regard to Peart’s negative attitude to direct fan contact and his printed revelsations that his craft skills as a musician within the arena of the rock concert form the limit to his relationship with fans. Therefore, the article examines self-perceptions of celebrity status as an unwanted by-product of musical success and renown, and as such provides the analysis of a celebrity ‘insider’ view of fan adulation and the negative consequences of celebrity culture

Aesthetics · Art · Celebrity culture · Confessional · Craft · Fandom · Media studies · Perception · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

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