TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson, Jeff T.
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0197.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004663
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1055408067
KW  - US musical history
KW  - musicology
KW  - poetics
KW  - bad luck
KW  - trouble
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0ddc0c8a-a29b-4e99-a09f-8b44d1140f31/1004663.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25432
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781947447455
SN  - 9781947447448
TI  - Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poeticsnull
ER  - 
