Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry Mattison Mike
Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry Mattison Mike Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music…
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Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry Mattison Mike
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. 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 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.