Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (33 1/3 Series) »

Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.

Acknowledgments     vi
Introduction     1
Birth     5
Innocence     37
Experience     72
Death     108
Transcendence     134
Sources     153