Johnson, Jeff T. <br/><br/>
Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics /  
Jeff T. Johnson. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781947447455 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics<br/>Popular music<br/>Poetry<br/>Music / Ethnomusicology.<br/>Theory of music & musicology.<br/>poetry.<br/>Musique populaire--Philosophie et esthetique.<br/>Poesie.<br/>Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.<br/>Poetry.<br/>Popular music--Songs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Songs<br/>Electronic books.