Reading song lyrics / / Lars Eckstein.
Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely ac...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 137 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
137. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Performativity and Performance
- Generic Conventions and Cultural Capital
- Sound and Songfulness
- Mediality and Musical Multimedia
- Bridge: Song and National Culture
- Love is in the Ayre (1597)
- Broadsides and Backsides (1811)
- Toasting the English (2000)
- Conclusion
- Works Cited.