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The poetics of American song lyrics /

Title:
The poetics of American song lyrics /
Published:
Jackson : c2012.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
The day Johnny Cash died / Lamar Alexander -- Reduced to rhyme: on contemporary doggerel / David Caplan -- The sonnet within the song: country lyrics and the Shakespearean sonnet structure / Charlotte Pence -- Rap poetry 101 / Adam Bradley -- It don't mean a thing: the blues mask of modernism / Kevin Young -- Gangsta rap's heroic substrata: a survey of the evidence / John Paul Hampstead -- At the crossroads: the intersection of poetry and the blues / Keith Flynn -- Country music lyrics: is there poetry in those twangy rhymes? / Jill Jones -- Similarities and differences between song lyrics and poetry / Pat Pattison -- Words and music: three stories / Wyn Cooper -- The triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the creative spirit / Peter Guralnick -- The Jo Blow version / David Kirby -- A Nobel for Dylan? / Gordon Ball -- Lyric impression, muscle memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts / Claudia Emerson -- Don Khan and truck-driving wives: Dylan's fluctuating lyrics / Ben Yagoda -- Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the oral and literary traditions / David Daniel -- The soup that could change the world / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Laughing in tune: R.E.M. and the post-confessional lyric / Jeffrey Roessner -- Sweetness follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats and the consolations of time / Eric Reimer -- Sweeping up the jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The stranger song" / Brian Howe -- Facing the music: the poetics of Bruce Springsteen / Robert P. McParland -- Coming into your town: Okkervil River's "Black" / Stephen M. Deusner -- Still holding at the seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the contemporary poetic sequence / Jesse Graves -- Not to oppose evil: Johnny Cash's bad luck wind / Tony Tost.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
PN1059.S7 P64 2012Available