TY - BOOK AU - Carroll,Rachel AU - Hansen,Adam TI - Litpop: Writing and Popular Music T2 - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series SN - 9781472410986 AV - ML3849 -- .L585 2014eb U1 - 782.42164 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Popular music -- History and criticism KW - Music and literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Writing and Popular Music -- Part I: Making Litpop -- 1 'A Burlesque of Art' -- 2 'You can't just say "words"' -- 3 Perfect Pop Story -- 4 'Fate Songs' -- 5 'We are turning cursive letters into knives' -- Part II: Thinking Litpop -- 6 Defining Qualities -- 7 Trauma and Degeneration -- 8 Is 'Natural' In It? -- 9 'You Should Try Lying More' -- 10 Fela Versus Craze World -- Part III: Consuming Litpop -- 11 '[S]he Loved Him Madly' -- 12 Audio Books -- 13 'Our histories could fill a megastore' -- 14 Coda -- Index N2 - Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial role to play in making popular music what it is, and how popular music informs 'literary' writing in diverse ways. The collection features musicologists, literary critics, experts in cultural studies, and creative writers UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1815570 ER -