The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song : Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alleyne, Mike.

Series:

Routledge Music Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities examines histories, contexts, and critical perceptions of cover song practices that manifest in mimetic homages, nuanced reinterpretations, or radical transformations.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables and Appendices

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Recorded Song as Vivid Text

1 The Legacy of Cross Racial Covers

2 Wakon-Beisai: Japanese Versions of "Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley (1957)

Michiko Hamamura (1957)

3 Gesture, Text, Context: Post-Punk and New Wave Interpretations of Early Soul and Funk Barrett Strong, "Money (That's What I Want)" (1959)

The Flying Lizards (1979) James Brown, "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (Part 1)" (1970)

The Flying Lizards (1984)

4 A Microcosm of Punk Aesthetics: The Residents and Devo "(Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones (1965)

The Residents (1976)

Devo (1977)

5 "Hey Joe": A Triad of Black Recorded Interconnections The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966)

Seal (1991)

Black Uhuru (1990)

6 Voicing Historicity in "Four Women" Nina Simone (1966)

Meshell Ndegeocello (2012)

7 Two Sides of Motown: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (1967)

Diana Ross (1970)

8 "Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain": Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park" Cover and Disco Extravaganza Richard Harris (1968)

Donna Summer (1978)

9 Black Sabbath: A Legacy in Cover Songs "Black Sabbath" (1970)

Thou (2009) "Paranoid" (1970)

Kylesa (2015) "Solitude" (1971)

Ulver (2007) "Changes" (1972)

Charles Bradley (2016) "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973)

The Cardigans (1994) "Symptom of the Universe" (1975)

Sepultura (1994)

10 "Your Song," My Chords: A Phenomenological Analysis of Ellie Goulding's Cover Elton John, "Your Song" (1970)

Ellie Goulding (2010)

11 "There Is Your Song from Me": Re-Imagining "Blue" Joni Mitchell (1971)

Arc Iris (2018).

12 Pictures at the Mekong Delta: Shaping Mussorgsky into Heavy Metal Mekong Delta, "Pictures at an Exhibition" (1996)

Emerson, Lake and Palmer (1971)

13 "Can't You Hear Me?" from Emotional Distress to a Social "S.O.S." Portishead's Version of ABBA's Hit Song ABBA, "S.O.S." (1974)

Portishead (2016)

14 Covering and Commercializing Soca: Transforming the Soundtrack of Carnival into Novelty Pop Tunes Lord Kitchener, "Sugar Bum Bum" (1977)

Swamp Dogg (2000) Anslem Douglas, "Doggie" (1998)

Baha Men, "Who Let the Dogs Out" (2000)

15 "Thin Dime, Hard Times": Competing Trajectories of Genre and Authenticity in Bluegrass Tony Rice, "Church Street Blues" (1983)

Punch Brothers (2022)

16 The Ironic Cover Song: "My Sharona" Meets the Alternative 90s The Knack (1979)

Veruca Salt (1995)

17 "Midnight Rider's Prayer": Brothers Osborne's Recontextualization of Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" in Post-2020 America Willie Nelson (1980)

Brothers Osborne (2022)

18 Asserting the Missing Indigenous Voice in "Run to the Hills" Iron Maiden (1982)

Tanya Tagaq and Damian Abraham (2018)

19 Cover Songs and Queer (Musical) Ontologies: A Case Study on Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" Kate Bush (1988)

Maxwell (1997)

20 Cover Conceptions and Boundaries: When A Cover Includes Original Artists Metallica, "One" (1988)

Apocalyptica (2024)

21 Alternative's Alternatives: Radical Reimaginings of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana (1991)

Tori Amos (1992)

Think Up Anger feat. Malia J (2015)

22 Friday I'm In Lofi: ASMR Aesthetics and the Gentle Pleasure of Phoebe Bridgers's Cover of the Cure The Cure, "Friday, I'm in Love" (1992)

Phoebe Bridgers (2018)

23 Who is the Real Femme Fatale? Film Noir, Shifting Perspective, and Performance in "Things Have Changed" Bob Dylan (2000)

Bettye LaVette (2018).

24 Silencing Kim: Lingua Ignota's Transformation of Eminem's "Kim" Eminem (2000)

Lingua Ignota (2020)

25 Signing Divas: Sign Language Covers of "Defying Gravity" Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth (2003)

Sandra Mae Frank (2017)

Rogan Shannon (2021)

Amber Zion (2024)

Joshua Castille (2024)

26 Abstract Orchestra Signifyin(g) on Madvillain's "Meat Grinder" Madvillain (2004)

Abstract Orchestra (2019)

27 Shades of Heartache and Musical Identity in "The Limit to Your Love" Feist (2007)

James Blake (2010)

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003489924

9781040631454

OCLC:

1570453893

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392797