Overview
- Explores the aesthetic and political implications of the interactions between words and music
- Provides a heterogeneous survey of the ever-changing landscape of popular studies
- Examine the relation between ‘high’ culture and the popular, discussing political and societal contexts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature (PASTMULI)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Popular Form and Pop-Aesthetics
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The Geopolitics of the Popular
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Popular Classics?
Keywords
About this book
Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ‘the’ popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is ‘pop’ a system? How can popularity be explained in certain historical and political contexts? How do class, gender, race, and ethnicity contribute to and complicate an understanding of the ‘popular’? What of the popularity of verbal art forms? How do they interact with music at particular times and throughout different media?
Reviews
— Philip Auslander is Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
As a scholar of popular culture, what excites me about this eclectic collection is the way that it explodes any fixed conception of the relationship between elite and popular music in favor of an exploration of the flexible borders between music and lyrics, high and low, text and performance, art and commerce, traditional and emergent, live and mediated, original and remix, spectatorship and participation, and so much more. Each essay offers nuanced, intermedial readings of specific sites of music production, each of which ask fundamental questions about the nature of popular music, past, present, and future.
– Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Gurke is Lecturer for English and Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. His PhD-dissertation focused on the intersemiotic, aesthetic and affective dynamics of music and literature in the texts of James Joyce and is forthcoming as a monograph. Apart from James Joyce, he has also published on contemporary fiction, ecology, the short story and popular culture.
Susan Winnett is Professor of American Studies and Transcultural Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She is the author of Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and Henry James (1993) and Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Words, Music, and the Popular
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations
Editors: Thomas Gurke, Susan Winnett
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85543-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85542-0Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85545-1Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85543-7Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5133
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 262
Topics: Literature, general, Music, Philosophy of Music, Popular Culture , Media and Communication