Nostalgia, song and the quest for home production, text, reception edited by Paul Carr

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carr, Paul, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nostalgia in music.

Emotions in music.

Popular music--Psychological aspects.

Popular music.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Academic 2025

Summary:

What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting? This book explores a neglected aspect of scholarship surrounding the study of song--its relationship with nostalgia and notions of 'home,' in the broadest sense. Each essay in this collection studies these factors from the perspective of 'production', 'text' and 'reception,' either individually or in combination. Making use of frameworks such as Marxism, critical theory and hauntology, this is a propulsive study of the global cultural phenomena of nostalgia music. From the perspective of 'production,' authors explore nostalgia as technique and the commercialization of nostalgia. The section focused on 'text' features case studies of nostalgic songs or albums about home and musicological analyses of the nostalgic trends of songwriters, songs, albums. Finally, the 'reception' essays facilitate examination of nostalgic narratives from the subjective and varying perspectives of audiences or listeners. Whether identifying with Bruce Springsteen or ABBA, or hailing from Ukraine or New Zealand, the featured music speaks to a listener's sense of home and self. From music of the Serbian diaspora and Country 'n' Irish music, which speak of a nostalgia for a homeland (or time) to which one cannot return, to a song performed in the Wuhan dialect for listeners who could not leave their homes during COVID containment, these collected essays feature the music of artists whose audiences have found and clung to a version of themselves

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Home, Song and Nostalgia

Paul Carr (University of South Wales, UK)

2. History, Postmodernism and the Music Industry

3. Production, Text and Reception

Part 1: Production

4. 'Tales from the Surrey Countryside': Paul Weller's Wild Wood and Modernist Nostalgia as Hypochondria of the Heart

Peter Hughes Jachimiak (University of South Wales, UK)

5. Navigating the Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Bruce Springsteen, and the "Long Walk Home"

Carlee Migliorisi (Monmouth University, USA)

6. A Lifetime, One Day: Nostalgia and Dream in the Latest Album of Silvia P&&&&&rez Cruz

Julia Escribano Blanco (University of Valladolid, Spain)

7. Nostalgia of the Frontier: Baja Mali Knindza and the Songs of Serbian Diaspora

Ondrej Daniel (Charles University, Czech Republic)

8. Sound Resignifications and Technostalgic Incursions: the Revival in Music Production

&&frica González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Part 2: Text

9. When You Come Back Home: The Front Lawn and their Dream Home in New Zealand

Matthew Bannister (Wintec University, New Zealand)

10. Narrating home in times of war: Ukrainian Popular Music after the Russian Full-Scale Invasion

Anna Glew (University of Liverpool, UK)

11. Hanyangmen Garden: Nostalgia and solace in dialectal folk song during Covid-19

Yangke Li (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

Part 3: Reception

12. Back Where We've Never Been: Daniel O'Donnell and the Country 'n' Irish Imaginary

Stan Erraught (University of Leeds, UK)

13. 'Let's Win Another Trophy Like We Did in '55': Representations of the North East throughout Makina Music

Chris Inglis (BIMM Bristol, UK)

14. "Abba Were my Constant and my Saviour": How Nostalgia, Memories, and Notions of 'Home' Shape Peoples Favourite ABBA Songs

Shanika C.S Ranasinghe (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Index

Notes:

Includes index

Other Format:

Print version:9798765124185 Nostalgia, song and the quest for home

ISBN:

9798765124376

OCLC:

1520505461

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