Shakespeare and popular music / Adam Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Shakespeare, William.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented and reworked through popular music? Do all types of popular music represent Shakespeare in the same ways? And how do the links between Shakespeare and popular music challenge what we think we know about both Shakespeare and popular music? One of the enduring myths about how Shakespeare and popular music relate is that they don't - after all the antagonism between high culture and pop music could be considered mutual. In the first book of its kind, Adam Hansen shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and

Contents:

Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A whole lotta Shakespeare goin' on?; 1 Shakespeare and early modern popular music; 2 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare and modern popular music; 3 Shakespeare and the technologies of pop; 4 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, 'race', and popular music; 5 'High-class dreams': Shakespeare, status and country music; 6 Shakespeare and the sixties; 7 Shakes-punk: 'Deformed, unfinished', and rotten; 8 Predicting riots?: Shakespeare, pop and politics; 9 Rockin' all over the globe

10 Fans, fans, fans, lend me your ears: Listening to listenersCoda: The rest is?; Works cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-178) and index.

ISBN:

9786612821752

9781472555199

1472555198

9781282821750

128282175X

9781441134257

1441134255

OCLC:

670412127