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Author:   Kelly Baron ,  Andrew DuBois ,  Karl Manis ,  Christopher Birkett
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666968729

ISBN 10:   1666968722
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures About the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois (University of Toronto) 1. Imagined Audio: Listening to Fictional Sounds Karl Manis (University of Toronto) 2. Townes Van Zandt and the Semantic Entanglement of Song and Lyric Christopher Birkett (Independent Scholar) and Eric Tyler Powell (University of Ljubljana) 3. “I Can’t Even Remember El Paso”: Bob Dylan’s “She’s Your Lover Now” as Literary Text Court Carney (Stephen F. Austin State University) and Eralda L. Lameborshi (Texas A&M University) 4. Blank Verse versus Black Voice: Or, the Problem of the Racialized Reception of Poetry and Song George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto) 5. Paracritical Nas: An (Ill)matic Reading Trivius Caldwell (United States Military Academy at West Point) 6. “Throw Your Hands In The Air”: Wayde Compton’s Turntable Aesthetics as Sonic Wave/Wake Work Max Karpinski (York University) 7. “A Story That Wasn’t in the Words”: Music, Mothering, and Minor Figures Cameron MacDonald (University of Toronto) 8. “Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before”: Chicanx Musical Translation and Repetition Desirée A. Martín (UC Davis) 9. Wanton Exhibitions of Spleen: Punk and Post-Punk Dissonance in Word and Melody Sue Sorensen (Canadian Mennonite University) 10. Beyond “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”: Anti-Fascist Poetics and the Mythologizing of Reagan in 1980s American Hardcore Punk Cath Marceau (McGill University) 11. Love and Queerness at the End of the World: The Collective Catharsis of Sad Girl Music Ryanne Kap and Amy LeBlanc (University of Calgary) 12. The Sound of Speech: The Transition from Singing to Speaking in Musical Performance Kristine Dizon (Concordia University) 13. Pop Goes the Storyworld: Popular Songs for Teaching Narrative Theory Daniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto) 14. Estranged: Alien Grammar and the Ace of Spades Ryan Stafford (University of Toronto) Index

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Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois have gifted us a remarkable essay collection that considers song lyrics as literature and in literature. The varied contributors write in distinct voices, yes, and also in distinct keys, time signatures, and frequencies of thought and feeling. Taken together, these essays invite close listening and close reading—often both at once. An indispensable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the poetics of song. * Adam Bradley, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *

Author Information

Kelly Baron is Managing Director of Siren Recordings, a sonic poetry label and archive. Andrew DuBois is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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