Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics / Jeff T. Johnson.
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 s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Santa Barbara, CA : : Punctum Books,, 2018. ©2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781947447455 1947447459 9781947447448 1947447440 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jeff T. Johnson. |