The Crossroads of Music and Literature : New Essays on the Muse of Song.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baron, Kelly, editor.

DuBois, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A collection of fourteen original essays taking a fresh approach to how music plays a crucial role in literary texts, and to the ways in which music is itself a work of literature.

Contents:

List of Figures About the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois (University of Toronto) 1. Imagined Audio: Listening to Fictional Sounds Karl Manis (University of Toronto) 2. Townes Van Zandt and the Semantic Entanglement of Song and Lyric Christopher Birkett (Independent Scholar) and Eric Tyler Powell (University of Ljubljana) 3. "I Can't Even Remember El Paso": Bob Dylan's "She's Your Lover Now" as Literary Text Court Carney (Stephen F. Austin State University) and Eralda L. Lameborshi (Texas A&M University) 4. Blank Verse versus Black Voice: Or, the Problem of the Racialized Reception of Poetry and Song George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto) 5. Paracritical Nas: An (Ill)matic Reading Trivius Caldwell (United States Military Academy at West Point) 6. "Throw Your Hands In The Air": Wayde Compton's Turntable Aesthetics as Sonic Wave/Wake Work Max Karpinski (York University) 7. "A Story That Wasn't in the Words": Music, Mothering, and Minor Figures Cameron MacDonald (University of Toronto) 8. "Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before": Chicanx Musical Translation and Repetition Desirée A. Martín (UC Davis) 9. Wanton Exhibitions of Spleen: Punk and Post-Punk Dissonance in Word and Melody Sue Sorensen (Canadian Mennonite University) 10. Beyond "Nazi Punks Fuck Off": Anti-Fascist Poetics and the Mythologizing of Reagan in 1980s American Hardcore Punk Cath Marceau (McGill University) 11. Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music Ryanne Kap and Amy LeBlanc (University of Calgary) 12. The Sound of Speech: The Transition from Singing to Speaking in Musical Performance Kristine Dizon (Concordia University) 13. Pop Goes the Storyworld: Popular Songs for Teaching Narrative Theory Daniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto) 14. Estranged: Alien Grammar and the Ace of Spades Ryan Stafford (University of Toronto) Index

ISBN:

979-88-8189-754-3

1-9787-6617-3

979-82-16-25857-5

9781978766174

OCLC:

1547896612