| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Note |
Electronic version of record (viewed on June 19th, 2020). |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Songs.
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Poetry.
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Popular music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
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Popular music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01752057
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass.
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| Genre/Form |
Songs. (OCoLC)fst01726744
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781947447448 |
| ISBN |
9781947447455 (ePDF) |
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1947447459 (ePDF) |
| Standard No. |
10.21983/P3.0197.1.00. doi |
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