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The Crossroads of Music and Literature
New Essays on the Muse of Song
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The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song brings together fourteen original essays from an international, intergenerational cohort of scholars, each taking a fresh approach to the manner in which music plays a crucial role in literary texts and to the ways in which music is itself a work of literature.
The relationship of song lyrics to lyric poetry is taken up in work on artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Motörhead, Nas, and Townes Van Zandt, while the centrality of music and sound in the midst of prose is probed in novels by Ralph Ellison, Valeria Luiselli, and Ann Petry. The creation of artistic communities is considered through the cathartic lens of Sad Girl Music, the anti-Fascist dissonance of punk, and Chicanx translations of British pop, alongside explorations of turntablist poetics, Black voice versus blank verse, the narratology of popular song, and more.
The relationship of song lyrics to lyric poetry is taken up in work on artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Motörhead, Nas, and Townes Van Zandt, while the centrality of music and sound in the midst of prose is probed in novels by Ralph Ellison, Valeria Luiselli, and Ann Petry. The creation of artistic communities is considered through the cathartic lens of Sad Girl Music, the anti-Fascist dissonance of punk, and Chicanx translations of British pop, alongside explorations of turntablist poetics, Black voice versus blank verse, the narratology of popular song, and more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Imagined Audio: Listening to Fictional Sounds
- Chapter 2: Townes Van Zandt and the Semantic Entanglement of Song and Lyric
- Chapter 3: âI Canât Even Remember El Pasoâ: Bob Dylanâs âSheâs Your Lover Nowâ as Literary Text
- Chapter 4: Blank Verse versus Black Voice: Or, the Problem of the Racialized Reception of Poetry and Song
- Chapter 5: Paracritical Nas: An Illmatic Reading
- Chapter 6: Made from Scratch: Wayde Compton, Turntablism, and Sonic Wave/Wake Work
- Chapter 7: âA Story That Wasnât in the Wordsâ: Music, Mothering, and Minor Figures
- Chapter 8: âStop Me If You Think That Youâve Heard This One Beforeâ: Chicanx Musical Translation and Repetition
- Chapter 9: Wanton Exhibitions of Spleen: Punk and Post-Punk Dissonance in Word and Melody
- Chapter 10: Beyond âNazi Punks Fuck Offâ: Anti-Fascist Poetics and the Mythologizing of Reagan in 1980s American Hardcore Punk
- Chapter 11: Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music
- Chapter 12: The Sound of Speech: The Transition from Singing to Speaking in Musical Performance
- Chapter 13: Pop Goes the Storyworld: Popular Songs for Teaching Narrative Theory
- Chapter 14: Estranged: Alien Grammar and the Ace of Spades
- Index
- About the Editors