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Author : Mike Mattison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496837290

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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 asked in Poetic Song Verse are: What, exactly, is this new genre? What were its origins? And how has it developed? How do we study and assess it? To answer these questions, Mattison and Suarez engage in an extended discussion of the roots of the relationship between blues-based music and poetry and address how it developed into a distinct literary genre. Unlocking the combination of richly textured lyrics wedded to recorded music reveals a dynamism at the core of poetic song verse that can often go unrealized in what often has been considered merely popular entertainment. This volume balances historical details and analysis of particular songs with accessibility to create a lively, intelligent, and cohesive narrative that provides scholars, teachers, students, music influencers, and devoted fans with an overarching perspective on the poetic power and blues roots of this new literary genre.

Author : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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'Verses for Children, and Songs for Music' is a collection of children's rhymes and poems written by the well-known British children's book author, Juliana Horatia Ewing. Featured titles to be found in this work include 'The Burial of the Linnet', 'Master Fritz', and 'The Willow-Man'.

Author : Douglas Kearney
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1950268624

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2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.

Author : Kwame Dawes
Publisher : Bobcat Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0857128388

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The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers. He was a performer who held true to his religious and cultural heritage, who rallied against injustice, and who became an internationally revered musical icon. Renowned poet and scholar Kwame Dawes analyses in detail his verses and lyrics, matching them against the social and political climate of the time and asking of them what it meant to be a black, Jamaican man thrust into the limelight of western society; how change can be affected through music; and how political and ethical truths can be woven into song. His lyrics are poignant, powerful and poetic and this book showcases his written word. Updated to include an interactive timeline of his life, formed with videos and imagery, as well as integrated Spotify playlists, this is the perfect companion to Bob Marley’s recordings.

Author : Ralph Erwin Gibbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781331609100

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Excerpt from Songs of Content: A Volume of Verse I undertook to prepare the poems of Ralph Erwin Gibbs for publication, primarily because the poetic nature and the noble character of the young man had so endeared him to hisfassociates that it seemed fitting to erect out of his own work some monument that might keep his memory fair among us and comfort those by whom he was most beloved. But I had not worked deep into his manuscripts before the conviction came that not to have preserved the best of them for the public would have been no mere mistake, but an in justice. Of his lyrics the more beautiful, and of his poems of life and death the more seriously considered, deserve an honorable place in the estimation of Californians. If my ih terest in the author does not deceive me, they will win their way not only where promise untimely stricken is deplored, but where the comfort and the grace of art are for their own sakes welcomed. To our prosaic world there is but rarely vouchsafed the seer who with calm regard contemplates mystery, for whom deity wears a human air, and corrup tion assumes the incorruptibility of ideal form - the magician, at whose touch life and language kindle into song and the portals of the heart swing open. When the gods have be gun to dower in poetic wise some gracious youth, and we to suspect him of the rapturous gift, - if then they love him be yond measure, and take him, it is but natural that we should cherish with uncritical affection whatever fragment of his art he may have left; that we should delight to conjecture what manner of poet he might have been, what blessing of com forter. All this have some of us, of diverse tastes, done in respect of these soncs or content. We have also tried the impartial view; and we think that others will share with us our generous error, if error it be, that some two or three hun dred verses (and that is much) of this young man's making deserve, independently of personal considerations, to be called poetry and to live; that they are of the stuff that engages the sympathies of men for semblances not ephemeral, of the strain that enhances joy and lightens sorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1472155998

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'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed her home and inspired her work. The poems in Dog Songs begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers and become, through her extraordinary vision, meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver's most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2020-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Walt Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. The first edition was a small book of twelve poems and the last, a compilation of over 400. The poems of Leaves of Grass represent Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. His poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. Leaves of Grass (First Edition): Song of Myself A Song for Occupations To Think of Time The Sleepers I Sing the Body Electric Faces Song of the Answerer Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States A Boston Ballad There Was a Child Went Forth Who Learns My Lesson Complete Great Are the Myths Leaves of Grass (Final Edition): Inscriptions One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foreign Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidolons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Starting from Paumanok Song of Myself Children of Adam From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Calamus Salut au Monde! Song of the Open Road Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Song of the Answerer Our Old Feuillage A Song of Joys Song of the Broad-Axe Song of the Exposition Song of the Redwood-Tree A Song for Occupations A Song of the Rolling Earth Birds of Passage A Broadway Pageant Sea-Drift By the Roadside Drum-Taps First O Songs for a Prelude Eighteen Sixty-One Beat! Beat! Drums! From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird Song of the Banner at Daybreak Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps Virginia—The West City of Ships The Centenarian's Story Cavalry Crossing a Ford Memories of President Lincoln By Blue Ontario's Shore Autumn Rivulets Proud Music of the Storm Passage to India Prayer of Columbus The Sleepers To Think of Time Whispers of Heavenly Death Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood From Noon to Starry Night Songs of Parting Sands at Seventy Good-Bye My Fancy