ISBN:
9781947447448
,
9781947447455
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Edition:
1st edition.
Keywords:
Popular music Philosophy and aesthetics
;
Poetry
;
Popular music Songs
;
poetry ; aat
;
Popular music ; Songs
;
Music / Ethnomusicology
;
Theory of music & musicology
;
Musique populaire ; Philosophie et esthetique
;
Poesie
;
Popular music ; Philosophy and aesthetics
;
Poetry
;
Poetry
;
Popular music
;
Songs
;
Popsong
;
Lyrik
;
Ärger
;
Sorge
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Trouble Songs is a hybrid serial work that tracks the appearance of the word "trouble" in 20th- and 21st-century American music. It reads (and sings) songs and poems, with reference to cultural events ranging from the death of a pop singer to the growth of popular resistance movements. The trouble singer invokes the word "trouble" in place of actual trouble--the song is a spell that conjures trouble (from bad luck and disaffection to infidelity, impotence, destitution, and the specter of death) in a temporary form that can be dis-spelled, if only for the length of the song. Singer and song also open a critical space for making trouble, for stirring the heart and mind. This space is a disjunction in time (and a superimposition of events) where singer and listener collaborate on meaning (un/)making as they temporarily transform trouble.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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