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The poetics of American song lyrics / edited by Charlotte Pence.
| Other author | Pence, Charlotte. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, |
| Description | xix, 288 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | American made music series |
| Contents | The day Johnny Cash died / Lamar Alexander -- Reduced to rhyme: on contemporary doggerel / David Caplan -- The sonnet within the song: country lyrics and the Shakespearean sonnet structure / Charlotte Pence -- Rap poetry 101 / Adam Bradley -- It don't mean a thing: the blues mask of modernism / Kevin Young -- Gangsta rap's heroic substrata: a survey of the evidence / John Paul Hampstead -- At the crossroads: the intersection of poetry and the blues / Keith Flynn -- Country music lyrics: is there poetry in those twangy rhymes? / Jill Jones -- Similarities and differences between song lyrics and poetry / Pat Pattison -- Words and music: three stories / Wyn Cooper -- The triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the creative spirit / Peter Guralnick -- The Jo Blow version / David Kirby -- A Nobel for Dylan? / Gordon Ball -- Lyric impression, muscle memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts / Claudia Emerson -- Don Khan and truck-driving wives: Dylan's fluctuating lyrics / Ben Yagoda -- Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the oral and literary traditions / David Daniel -- The soup that could change the world / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Laughing in tune: R.E.M. and the post-confessional lyric / Jeffrey Roessner -- Sweetness follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats and the consolations of time / Eric Reimer -- Sweeping up the jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The stranger song" / Brian Howe -- Facing the music: the poetics of Bruce Springsteen / Robert P. McParland -- Coming into your town: Okkervil River's "Black" / Stephen M. Deusner -- Still holding at the seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the contemporary poetic sequence / Jesse Graves -- Not to oppose evil: Johnny Cash's bad luck wind / Tony Tost. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011016103 |
| ISBN | 9781617031564 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1617031569 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781617031915 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1617031917 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781617031571 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1617031577 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |