Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

ISBN-13: 9781501354694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Northern Illin Ryan Hibbett (Assistant Professor of English

Opis

Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper’s, meaning the very same band who represents the mass-consumed, "mindless" music of adolescents simultaneously enjoys status as among the best that Western culture has to offer. The story of rock music, it turns out, is less that of a contagious popular form situated in opposition to high art, but, rather, a story of high and low in dialogue--messy and contentious, to be sure, but also mutually obligated to account for, if not appropriate, one another. The chapters in this book track the uses of literature, specifically, within this relation, helping to showcase collectively its fundamental role in the emergence of the "pop omnivore."

Spis treści

Contributors Introduction Ryan Hibbett, Northern Illinois University, USA Part 1:Authorship and Authenticity 1. David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock’s Unfinished Revolution Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USA 2. Kurt, Kathleen ‘n’ Kathy: Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being For Real Patricia Malone, University of Aberdeen, UK Part 2: Craft and Confession 3. Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 4. Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor: The “Amateur” Poetry of Taylor Swift Weishun Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 5. Personae Non Grata: Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs John Kimsey, DePaul University, USA Part 3: Aesthetics, Movements, Technology 6. New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music Chris Mustazza, University of Pennsylvania, USA 7. Cycling on Acid: The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock Tymon Adamczewski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland Part 4: Signs and Mediations 8. A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song: Images of James Joyce in Popular Music Kevin Farrell, Radford University, USA 9. “Hand in Glove”: Punk, Post-punk, and Poetry Martin Malone, University of Aberdeen, UK Part 5: Nation and Narrative 10. Under an American Spell: U2’s The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O’Connor Scott Calhoun, Cedarville University, USA 11. Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction Peter Hesseldenz, University of Kentucky, USA 12. When Poetry Meets Popular Music: The Case of Polish Rock Artists in the Late Twentieth Century Marek Jezinski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Part 6: Identity and Discourse 13. “It’s our version of Almost Famous”: Towards a Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism Kimberly Mack, University of Toledo, USA 14. Limits of the Literary: Rethinking Allusions in Pop Music Pat O’Grady, Independent Scholar, Australia Acknowledgments Index