The poetics of American song lyrics / edited by Charlotte Pence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pence, Charlotte.

Series:

American made music series.

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs--Texts--History and criticism.

Songs.

Poetics--History.

Poetics.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part One. Poetic History and Techniques within Poems and Songs; The Day Johnny Cash Died; Reduced to Rhyme: On Contemporary Doggerel; The Sonnet Within the Song: Country Lyrics and the Shakespearean Sonnet Structure; Rap Poetry 101; It Don't Mean a Thing: The Blues Mask of Modernism; Gangsta Rap's Heroic Substrata: A Survey of the Evidence; At the Crossroads: The Intersection of Poetry and the Blues; Country Music Lyrics: Is There Poetry in Those Twangy Rhymes?; Similarities and Differences between Song Lyrics and Poetry; Words and Music: Three Stories

Part Two. Analysis of Twentieth-Century SongwritersThe Triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the Creative Spirit; The Joe Blow Version; A Nobel for Dylan?; Lyric Impression, Muscle Memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts; Don Khan and Truck-Driving Wives: Dylan's Fluctuating Lyrics; Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the Oral and Literary Traditions; The Soup That Could Change the World; Laughing in Tune: R.E.M. and the Post-Confessional Lyric; Sweetness Follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats, and the Consolations of Time; Sweeping Up the Jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The Stranger Song"

Facing the Music: The Poetics of Bruce SpringsteenComing into Your Town: Okkervil River's "Black"; Still Holding at the Seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the Contemporary Poetic Sequence; Not to Oppose Evil: Johnny Cash's Bad Luck Wind; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613341396

1-283-34139-5

1-61703-157-7

OCLC:

772185983