TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Jeff T.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics / 
SN  - 9781947447455
PY  - 2018///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Punctum Books
KW  - Popular music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - fast
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Music / Ethnomusicology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Theory of music & musicology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - poetry
KW  - aat
KW  - Musique populaire
KW  - Philosophie et esthetique
KW  - Poesie
KW  - Songs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Title from content provider; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66804/
ER  -