Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics / Jeff T. Johnson

• Autore: Johnson Jeff T
• Pubblicazione: Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2018; Santa Barbara, CA : , : Punctum Books, , 2018; ©2018
• Edizione: 1st edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 782.001
• Soggetto topico: Theory of music & musicology
• Soggetto non controllato: US musical history; musicology; poetics; bad luck; trouble
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Trouble songs
• ISBN: 9781947447455; 1947447459; 9781947447448; 1947447440
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910315235103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II