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Author |
: Adam Bradley |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2017-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300165722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300165722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poetry of Pop by : Adam Bradley
A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyoncé and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are music first. They also comprise the most widely disseminated poetic expression of our time. Adam Bradley traces the song lyric across musical genres from early twentieth-century Delta blues to mid-century rock 'n’ roll to today’s hits. George and Ira Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm.” The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Rihanna’s “Diamonds.” These songs are united in their exacting attention to the craft of language and sound. Bradley shows that pop music is a poetry that must be heard more than read, uncovering the rhythms, rhymes, and metaphors expressed in the singing voice. At once a work of musical interpretation, cultural analysis, literary criticism, and personal storytelling, this book illustrates how words and music come together to produce compelling poetry, often where we least expect it.
Author |
: Michael Robbins |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2017-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476747095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476747091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Equipment for Living by : Michael Robbins
Brilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living. How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins’s mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.
Author |
: Thomas Gagnon |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 57 |
Release |
: 2011-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781456897970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1456897977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pop Poetry by : Thomas Gagnon
There certainly is more than one kind of love. Using traditional forms of poetry (e.g., sonnet, pantoum) and forms from the pop song (e.g., perfect rhyme, repetition), Thomas Gagnon describes different kinds of love: romance and friendshipwith men and with womenlove for a father and for a mentor, even fascination with a celebrity dancer. Beneath these relationshipslike the ancient town beneath the new cityis the relationship with the self, an especially complicated relationship that Gagnon does not shrink from exploring, whether whimsically or solemnly, or whimsically and solemnly in one poem. These poems will reverberate in your mindlike the lyrics from the latest pop song.
Author |
: Charlotte Pence |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617031564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617031569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poetics of American Song Lyrics by : Charlotte Pence
Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard
Author |
: David Pelham |
Publisher |
: Little Simon |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1416948945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781416948940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trail by : David Pelham
Follow the silvery trail through an enchanting maze of stunning pop-up landscapes that range from tranquil to mysterious to magical. This sparkling creation by multi-award-winning designer David Pelham will amaze and delight all who take the journey through this remarkable book.
Author |
: X X |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 2020-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798677712401 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corn Pop by : X X
I remember when W was president and many people were worried about his intellectual ability. This was much later than Reagan and worries about his Alzheimers. I only heard about this because I was too young to really remember much about Reagan while he was in office. But, this is all overshadowed these days with the fragments and short bursts of Trump and the ramblings of Biden. The time is right to present the poetry of Biden. All of these poems are taken straight from the speeches of Biden through out the years. No wording was changed. Only line breaks were added to turn his words into free verse poetry.
Author |
: Adam Bradley |
Publisher |
: Civitas Books |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2017-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465094417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465094414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Book of Rhymes by : Adam Bradley
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.
Author |
: Erik Didriksen |
Publisher |
: Quirk Books |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781594748295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1594748292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pop Sonnets by : Erik Didriksen
A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME
Author |
: Mike Mattison |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496837295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496837290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetic Song Verse by : Mike Mattison
Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music from entertainment to art-that-entertains. Musician Mike Mattison and literary historian Ernest Suarez synthesize a wide range of writing about blues and rock—biographies, histories, articles in popular magazines, personal reminiscences, and a selective smattering of academic studies—to examine the development of a relatively new literary genre dubbed by the authors as “poetic song verse.” They argue that poetic song verse was nurtured in the fifties and early sixties by the blues and in Beat coffee houses, and matured in the mid-to-late sixties in the art of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gil Scott-Heron, Van Morrison, and others who used voice, instrumentation, arrangement, and production to foreground semantically textured, often allusive, and evocative lyrics that resembled and engaged poetry. Among the questions asked in Poetic Song Verse are: What, exactly, is this new genre? What were its origins? And how has it developed? How do we study and assess it? To answer these questions, Mattison and Suarez engage in an extended discussion of the roots of the relationship between blues-based music and poetry and address how it developed into a distinct literary genre. Unlocking the combination of richly textured lyrics wedded to recorded music reveals a dynamism at the core of poetic song verse that can often go unrealized in what often has been considered merely popular entertainment. This volume balances historical details and analysis of particular songs with accessibility to create a lively, intelligent, and cohesive narrative that provides scholars, teachers, students, music influencers, and devoted fans with an overarching perspective on the poetic power and blues roots of this new literary genre.
Author |
: Willie Perdomo |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2019-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525504627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525504621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crazy Bunch by : Willie Perdomo
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."