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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.
Table of Contents
- Title, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-x
- Track List
- pp. xi-xiv
- Part One: I Must Be the Devil’s Daughter
- “Country Blues,” Dock Boggs
- pp. 17-18
- Trouble Songs: An Invocation
- pp. 19-22
- David Lynch, Trouble Man
- pp. 23-24
- Trouble Forms: Structure & Approach
- pp. 25-26
- Genre Trouble
- pp. 42-44
- History, Continued
- p. 49
- Trouble in Dreams, Destroyer
- pp. 55-58
- Part Two: I Know a Place Where There’s Still Something Going On
- “Trouble” Songs
- pp. 61-62
- Trouble With History
- pp. 66-67
- The Secret Rider
- pp. 69-70
- The Trouble With Superman
- pp. 73-75
- Trouble Returns
- pp. 76-77
- Lost in the Paradise
- pp. 78-79
- Fugue on Anthology Minor
- pp. 81-84
- Part Three: Trouble on the Line
- Annie Clark, Becoming “Kerosene"
- pp. 94-95
- If I Stay Here, Trouble Will Find Me
- pp. 96-99
- Trouble Will Find You
- pp. 100-101
- XXII: Trouble on the Line
- pp. 102-106
- Down the Line
- pp. 109-110
- Trouble in Heart
- p. 111
- The Circle
- pp. 112-115
- I’m a Fool to Want You
- pp. 116-117
- Lay It Down
- pp. 118-120
- Cause You’re Mine
- pp. 121-122
- Part Four: Back in Trouble
- Return to Trouble, That Lonesome Town
- pp. 125-127
- Death’s Head, Proud Flesh
- pp. 128-129
- Nobody Here but We in Trouble
- pp. 130-131
- A Whole House
- p. 132
- Nobody Knows (Great Things to Small)
- pp. 133-139
- The Author Role
- p. 146
- Dear Trouble
- p. 150
- The End of Trouble
- p. 151
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Demo
- pp. 159-162
- Appendix B: Cover
- pp. 163-167
- Appendix C: Remix
- pp. 168-178
- Works Cited
- pp. 179-184
- Index of Names
- pp. 185-190
- Index of Titles
- pp. 191-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9781947447448
MARC Record
OCLC
1055408067
Pages
204
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-04
Open Access
Yes
