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Trouble Songs: a Musicological Poetics

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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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Call Number

780

Publisher

: ., 2018

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781947447448

Classification

780

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Subject(s)

Ethnomusicology

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Statement of Responsibility

Jeff T. Johnson

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Firli

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6a8cf104-bd5b-4d5c-b920-e0b79e5b1660/details

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