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Autore |
Johnson Jeff T |
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Titolo |
Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics / Jeff T. Johnson |
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Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2018 |
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Santa Barbara, CA : , : Punctum Books, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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9781947447455 |
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9781947447448 |
1947447440 |
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Edizione |
[1st edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Theory of music & musicology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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