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Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music from entertainment to art-that-entertains. Musician Mike Mattison and literary historian Ernest Suarez synthesize a wide range of writing about blues and rock?biographies, histories, articles in popular magazines, personal reminiscences, and a selective smattering of academic studies?to examine the development of a relatively new literary genre dubbed by the authors as ?poetic song verse.? They argue that poetic song verse was nurtured in the fifties and early sixties by the blues and in Beat coffee houses, and matured in the mid-to-late sixties in the art of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gil Scott-Heron, Van Morrison, and others who used voice, instrumentation, arrangement, and production to foreground semantically textured, often allusive, and evocative lyrics that resembled and engaged poetry. Among the questions ask

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Author

Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496837301

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Music, History