Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics

• Tác giả: Jeff T Johnson
• ISBN-13: 978-1947447455
• Thông tin xuất bản: [Place of publication not identified] Punctum Books, 2018.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (204 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462230
• Chủ đề: 1. Poetry; 2. Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics; 3. Popular music--Songs; 4. Musique populaire--Philosophie et esthetique; 5. Poesie; 6. Music / Ethnomusicology; 7. Poetry; 8. poetry; 9. Popular music; 10. Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics; 11. Theory of music & musicology

Tóm tắt

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.