Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction -- 1 Popular Music Styles, Taste, and (Fan) Identities -- 2 Cultural Contexts, Memoryscapes, and the Biographical Self -- 3 Intermedial Encounters, the Poetics of Pop, and Musician(s') Fiction -- Works Cited -- Part 1 Popular Music Styles, Taste, and (Fan) Identities -- Chapter 2 On the End(s) of Identity: Pop Music and the Fictional Self -- 1 Introduction: Identity and Commitment -- 2 Identities: Personal, Social, Cultural, and Musical -- 3 Musico-Literary Identities and Subjectivities -- 4 Some Ends of Musical Identification -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 The Three Ages of Fan: Identity, Irony, and Post-Postmodernism in Roddy Doyle's Popular Music Narratives -- 1 The Commitments and Postmodern Politics -- 2 'The Deportees': Real Politics, Redux -- 3 The Guts: Paddy on the Road to New Sincerity -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Shaman or Messiah?: The Record Seller as a Higher Being in Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex -- Chapter 5 Changing Infrastructures of Musical Taste Formation? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Distinction and Consecration to the Infrastructures of Taste Formation -- 3 From the Infrastructures of Taste Formation to the Field of Valuation and Evaluation -- 4 The Relationship between Popular Music and Fiction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 'Popularity Is a Game': Music, Identity, and the Popular in Tom Cho's Look Who's Morphing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Language, Identity, and the Popular -- 3 Narratives of the Self in 'The Sound of Music' -- 4 Cultural Poetics of the Other in 'Chinese Whispers' -- 5 The Death of the Self in 'Cock Rock' -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Cultural Contexts, Memoryscapes, and the Biographical Self.

Chapter 7 Montreal Bohemia and the Mile End Apartment Party Scene -- 1 Montreal's Mile End -- 2 Novels of Jewish Life -- 3 Fictions of Mile End Bohemia -- 4 Literary Gentrification -- 5 Musical Scenes and the Literary Tableau -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 Appropriations in Pop: Cultural Appropriation, Gentrification, and Retromania in Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue, and Paul Beatty's Slumberland -- 1 Cultural Appropriation: The Fortress of Solitude and Identity Formation -- 2 Spatial Appropriation: Telegraph Avenue and Gentrification -- 3 Temporal Appropriation: Slumberland and Retromania -- 4 Intersecting Appropriations -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 A New Male Middle-Class Self?: Rock Music in Norwegian Novels, 1966-1984 -- 1 Siren's Call: Rock Music as a Sonic Marker for Sexual Adventures for Men -- 2 The Gendered Consumption of Music i: Private and Emotional Girls -- 3 The Gendered Consumption of Music ii: Public and Cerebral Boys -- 4 The Challenge of Punk: John Ege's Sputnik -- 5 Coming of Age, Advancing in Status: Lars Saabye Christensen's Beatles -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 Music, Media, and Memories in Serhiy Zhadan's Voroshilovgrad -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Histories -- 3 Memories -- 4 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 An Alternative Jazz Biography: Ronald Pohl's Kind aus Blau -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Birth of the Cool - Die Geburt von Kühl -- 3 The Man with the Horn: Miles, the Musician -- 4 Blue Haze: Biographical Anecdotes -- 5 Black Beauty or 'Strange Fruit': African-American Trauma -- 6 Kind of Blue - Kind aus/von/des Blau, or, All Kinds of Translation -- 7 Reprise -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 Musical Self-Remembrance in Contemporary Literature: Reflections on Friedrich Christian Delius's Die Zukunft der Schönheit -- 1 Musico-Literary Intermediality.

2 Music, Memory and Literature in Delius's Die Zukunft der Schönheit -- Works Cited -- Part 3 Intermedial Encounters, the Poetics of Pop, and Musician(s') Fiction -- Chapter 13 How to Create a Unique Atmosphere in Fiction and Recorded Music: Frank Witzel and The Beatles -- 1 Rubber Soul -- 2 Paratexts -- 3 Sequencing -- 4 Paratexts Revisited -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 Intermedial Resonances and Narrative Dissonances in Steve Earle's Music and Literature -- 1 Mythologies of American Storytelling and the Literariness of Country Music -- 2 The Critical Discourse -- 3 Earle's Musico-Literary Aesthetic -- 4 Song and Short Story: 'Taneytown' -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15 Fictitious Musicians - Fictitious Music? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Telling Stories -- 3 Intersections with Reality -- 3.1 Facts from Real Life -- 3.2 Paratextual Evidence -- 4 Finally, the Music -- 5 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 16 Fictional Transfigurations of Bob Dylan, or Writing the Unknowable -- Works Cited -- Chapter 17 To Believe in Neil Young: His Music, Navid Kermani, the Prophet, and Søren Kierkegaard -- 1 If Books Can Kill -- 1 Beginnings -- 2 The Suspension of Time -- 3 Improvisation and Religious Ecstasy -- 4 Neil Young and Søren Kierkegaard -- 5 Repetition and Faith -- Works Cited -- Chapter 18 Reading as Listening - Listening as Reading: Rock Novels from My Bookshelf -- 1 Types of Fiction -- 2 Types of Music -- 2.1 Jazz and Blues -- 2.2 Variety -- 2.3 Rock 'n' Roll -- 2.4 Rock -- 3 The Play List -- Works Cited.

The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity construction across decades, spaces, social groups, and cultural contexts, covering a wide range of literary and musical genres.

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