Litrock Literary Capital In Popular Music Ryan Hibbett Editor by Ryan Hibbett (editor) 9781501354694, 1501354698 instant download after payment.

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."
Part 1:Authorship and Authenticity1. David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock's Unfinished Revolution
2. Kurt, Kathleen 'n' Kathy: Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being For Real
Part 2: Craft and Confession
3. Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession
4. Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor: The “Amateur” Poetry of Taylor Swift
5. Personae Non Grata: Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs
Part 3: Aesthetics, Movements, Technology
6. New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music
7. Cycling on Acid: The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock
Part 4: Signs and Mediations
8. A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song: Images of James Joyce in Popular Music
9. “Hand in Glove”: Punk, Post-punk, and PoetryPart 5: Nation and Narrative
10. Under an American Spell: U2's The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O'Connor
11. Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction...