Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-19
• Mått: 178 x 254 x 28 mm
• Vikt: 1 100 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Routledge Music Handbooks
• Antal sidor: 420
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781032789484

• Musikvetenskap
• Populärmusik
• Musikböcker
• Kulturvetenskap

Mike Alleyne is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and Visiting Professor at the Pop Akademie in Germany. His work has been published in journals such as Popular Music & Society, Rock Music Studies, Popular Music History, Ethnomusicology Forum, and American Music Perspectives.Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary research explores representations of gender and sexuality in the lyrical, musical, and visual texts of popular music. She has published articles in journals such as Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Popular Music, Popular Music & Society, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, IASPM Journal, American Music Studies, and Metal Music Studies.

“This handbook handles a breathtakingly broad bank of musical material—a gauntlet thrown down by any ‘covers’ project but rarely taken up with such commitment to the cause. The essays assembled here address everything from Bob Dylan to Madvillain, from Metallica to Mussorgsky, from Soca to Sign Language, and much more besides. Vivid Versions is a vital volume for anyone interested in the questions coming out of the musical matrices that remade songs represent.”—Dr Freya Jarman, Reader in Music, University of Liverpool“There is probably no better way to explore the past seventy years of recorded popular music in all its stylistic, cultural, and sonic diversity than through the lens of the cover song. In The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities, Mike Alleyne and Lori Burns have assembled an impressive collection of essays from among the world’s leading popular music scholars, each of whom offers a close analysis of how a specific cover song transforms the original version in profound and interesting ways, using an array of approaches and methodologies that are as diverse as the cover songs themselves. Brimming with insightful observations in every chapter, this volume will prove essential reading not only for those interested in the phenomenon of the cover song but also the reception history of recorded popular music more broadly.”—Mark Spicer, Professor and Chair of Music, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York “I’ve found Vivid Versions especially compelling in the way it treats cover versions as a lens on how songs travel through bodies, scenes, industries, and histories. Across the volume, contributors show how re-imaginings can newly animate an original, rescue it, or even boldly attack it—and why those shifts matter socio-culturally as much as they do musically. What I particularly value is how the chapters connect close listening to questions of identity, power, and oppression without sacrificing musical specificity. And rather than leaning on familiar canonical touchstones, the book draws on a wide stylistic range and favors lesser-known cases that, in many instances, have even more to say.”—Prof. Ralf von Appen, Director of the Department of Popular Music, MDW - University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

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