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oapen-20.500.12657-254322022-07-21T14:40:08Z Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics Johnson, Jeff T. US musical history musicology poetics bad luck trouble bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music & musicology 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. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:39:20Z 2020-04-01T10:39:20Z 2018 book 1004663 OCN: 1055408067 9781947447455 9781947447448 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25432 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004663.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0197.1.00 10.21983/P3.0197.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781947447455 9781947447448 ScholarLed 204 Brooklyn, NY open access
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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.
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