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Title Write in tune : contemporary music in fiction / edited by Erich Hertz and Jeffrey Roessner.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

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Summary "Focusing on Anglo-American novels of the past two decades, Write in Tune explores the dynamic intersection between popular music and fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliography Bibliography9 "Every song ends"; From A to B; Everything is Ending: Real Longing and the Pure Past; Great Rock and Roll Pauses; Notes; Bibliography; Part Three Sounding Race and Nation; 10 "It's Me or the ... Eggplant"; "What Else Is There?"; "Am I Black or White . . .? Am I Straight Or Gay . . .?"; Fundamentalism and Deracination; Notes; Bibliography; 11 Rock Music as Cosmopolitan Touchstonein Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Notes; Bibliography; 12 Music Consumption and the Remix of Self in Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor; Notes; Bibliography; 13 Static Signals.
Contents Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Part One Negotiating Pop Styles; 1 More Than Zero; Notes; Bibliography; 2 "Consistently Original, Perennially Unheard Of"; Notes; Bibliography; 3 A Novel Idea for a Soundtrack; Notes; Bibliography; 4 "Where the Beat Sounds the Same"; "The Negation of Style"; The High Mode of Popular Consumption; Referents and Property; A Talking Head; Music and Murder; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Playing (in) Seattle; "As I Want You to Be": Grunge and Authenticity.
"Stupid and Contagious": Grunge and Its Myths"Rather Be Dead than Cool": A Novel about Mourning; Notes; Bibliography; Part Two Gendering Rock and Jazz; 6 Masculinity and Jazz in Jackie Kay's Trumpet, Jim Crace's All That Follows, and Alan Plater's The Beiderbecke Trilogy; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Queer Time, Queer Space, and Queer Edge in Lynn Breedlove's Godspeed; Notes; Bibliography; 8 The Popular Music Experiments of Rick Moody's Connecticut WASPs in The Ice Storm; Searching for the Self: The Ice Storm's "Moody" Teenagers; Liberation By Music: The Ice Storm's Naughty Middle-Agers; Notes.
Latinidad and Hierarchies of EvaluationJesenia's Upward Mobility Project; Celia Cruz in Translation; Teasing the Reader, Teasing out the Implications of the Market; The Santera Who Lived on Celia Cruz's Street; Notes; Bibliography; Part Four Making Pop Art; 14 Incommensurate Nostalgias Changin' Times in Watchmen; Introduction; Inherited and Imagined; Nostalgia by Veidt; Postcards of the Hanging; This is the Time. These are the Feelings.; Notes; Bibliography; 15 "To See the World in a Liner Note"; Notes; Bibliography; 16 Unrest and Silence; Narrative Afterlives: The Rotters' Club.
Allusions of Faith: On BeautyFigures of Doubt: The Bradshaw Variations; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 17 The Rock Star's Responsibility; Notes; Bibliography; Music in Contemporary Fiction:Select Bibliography; Index.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Music and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Music and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
Music in literature.
Music and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rock.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
Music and literature. (OCoLC)fst01030479
Music in literature. (OCoLC)fst01030552
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Hertz, Erich, editor of publication.
Roessner, Jeffrey, editor of publication.
Other Form: Print version: Write in tune 9781623564223 (DLC) 2013049426 (OCoLC)857981485
ISBN 9781623565060 (electronic bk.)
1623565065 (electronic bk.)
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