LEADER 04250nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910781545203321 005 20230802004307.0 010 $a9786613341396 010 $a1-283-34139-5 010 $a1-61703-157-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073626 035 $a(EBL)819518 035 $a(OCoLC)772185983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601754 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601754 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10565880 035 $a(PQKB)10926399 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819518 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10516102 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL334139 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073626 100 $a20110428d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe poetics of American song lyrics$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Charlotte Pence 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican made music series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61703-191-7 311 $a1-61703-156-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Introduction; Part One. Poetic History and Techniques within Poems and Songs; The Day Johnny Cash Died; Reduced to Rhyme: On Contemporary Doggerel; The Sonnet Within the Song: Country Lyrics and the Shakespearean Sonnet Structure; Rap Poetry 101; It Don't Mean a Thing: The Blues Mask of Modernism; Gangsta Rap's Heroic Substrata: A Survey of the Evidence; At the Crossroads: The Intersection of Poetry and the Blues; Country Music Lyrics: Is There Poetry in Those Twangy Rhymes?; Similarities and Differences between Song Lyrics and Poetry; Words and Music: Three Stories 327 $aPart Two. Analysis of Twentieth-Century SongwritersThe Triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the Creative Spirit; The Joe Blow Version; A Nobel for Dylan?; Lyric Impression, Muscle Memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts; Don Khan and Truck-Driving Wives: Dylan's Fluctuating Lyrics; Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the Oral and Literary Traditions; The Soup That Could Change the World; Laughing in Tune: R.E.M. and the Post-Confessional Lyric; Sweetness Follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats, and the Consolations of Time; Sweeping Up the Jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The Stranger Song" 327 $aFacing the Music: The Poetics of Bruce SpringsteenComing into Your Town: Okkervil River's "Black"; Still Holding at the Seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the Contemporary Poetic Sequence; Not to Oppose Evil: Johnny Cash's Bad Luck Wind; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aThe Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and 410 0$aAmerican made music series. 606 $aSongs$vTexts$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPoetics$xHistory 606 $aPoetry$xAuthorship 606 $aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSongs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory. 615 0$aPoetry$xAuthorship. 615 0$aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a782.42164/0268 701 $aPence$b Charlotte$01478302 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781545203321 996 $aThe poetics of American song lyrics$93693958 997 $aUNINA