Crossroads of Music and Literature

New Essays on the Muse of Song

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song brings together fourteen original essays from an international, intergenerational cohort of scholars, each taking a fresh approach to the manner in which music plays a crucial role in literary texts and to the ways in which music is itself a work of literature.The relationship of song lyrics to lyric poetry is taken up in work on artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Motörhead, Nas, and Townes Van Zandt, while the centrality of music and sound in the midst of prose is probed in novels by Ralph Ellison, Valeria Luiselli, and Ann Petry. The creation of artistic communities is considered through the cathartic lens of Sad Girl Music, the anti-Fascist dissonance of punk, and Chicanx translations of British pop, alongside explorations of turntablist poetics, Black voice versus blank verse, the narratology of popular song, and more.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-05
Mått:158 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666968729

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Musikböcker inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kelly Baron is Managing Director of Siren Recordings, a sonic poetry label and archive.Andrew DuBois is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Recensioner i media

Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois have gifted us a remarkable essay collection that considers song lyrics as literature and in literature. The varied contributors write in distinct voices, yes, and also in distinct keys, time signatures, and frequencies of thought and feeling. Taken together, these essays invite close listening and close reading—often both at once. An indispensable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the poetics of song.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAbout the Editors and ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionKelly Baron and Andrew DuBois (University of Toronto)1. Imagined Audio: Listening to Fictional SoundsKarl Manis (University of Toronto)2. Townes Van Zandt and the Semantic Entanglement of Song and LyricChristopher 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 TextCourt 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 SongGeorge Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)5. Paracritical Nas: An (Ill)matic ReadingTrivius Caldwell (United States Military Academy at West Point)6. “Throw Your Hands In The Air”: Wayde Compton’s Turntable Aesthetics as Sonic Wave/Wake WorkMax Karpinski (York University)7. “A Story That Wasn’t in the Words”: Music, Mothering, and Minor FiguresCameron MacDonald (University of Toronto)8. “Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before”: Chicanx Musical Translation and RepetitionDesirée A. Martín (UC Davis)9. Wanton Exhibitions of Spleen: Punk and Post-Punk Dissonance in Word and MelodySue Sorensen (Canadian Mennonite University)10. Beyond “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”: Anti-Fascist Poetics and the Mythologizing of Reagan in 1980s American Hardcore PunkCath Marceau (McGill University)11. Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl MusicRyanne Kap and Amy LeBlanc (University of Calgary)12. The Sound of Speech: The Transition from Singing to Speaking in Musical PerformanceKristine Dizon (Concordia University)13. Pop Goes the Storyworld: Popular Songs for Teaching Narrative TheoryDaniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto)14. Estranged: Alien Grammar and the Ace of SpadesRyan Stafford (University of Toronto)Index