Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music 9781501354694, 9781501354724, 9781501354717
Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatle...
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Table of contents :

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Conspicuous Listening: Literature, Rock, and the Pop Omnivore

Part I: Authorship and Authenticity

Chapter 1: David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock’s Unfinished Revolution

Chapter 2: Kurt, Kathleen ‘n’ Kathy: Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being for Real

Part II: Craft and Confession

Chapter 3: Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession

Chapter 4: Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor: The “Amateur” Poetry of Taylor Swift

Chapter 5: Personae Non Grata: Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs

Part III: Aesthetics, Movements, Technology

Chapter 6: New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music

Chapter 7: Cycling on Acid: The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock

Part IV: Signs and Mediations

Chapter 8: A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song: Images of James Joyce in Popular Music

Chapter 9: “Hand in Glove”: Punk, Post-punk, and Poetry

Part V: Nation and Narrative

Chapter 10: Under an American Spell: U2’s The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O’Connor

Chapter 11: Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction

Chapter 12: When Poetry Meets Popular Music: The Case of Polish Rock Artists in the Late Twentieth Century

Part VI: Identity and Discourse

Chapter 13: “It’s Our Version of Almost Famous”: Toward a Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism

Chapter 14: Limits of the Literary: Rethinking Allusions in Pop Music

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

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