Litpop: Writing and Popular Music

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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, organised in three themed sections. Making Litpop  explores how hybrids of writing and popular music have been created by musicians and authors. Thinking Litpop  considers what critical or intellectual frameworks help us to understand these hybrid cultural forms. Finally, Consuming Litpop  examines how writers deal with music s influence, how musicians engage with literary texts, and how audiences of music and writing understand their own role in making Litpop  happen. Discussing a range of genres and periods of writing and popular music, this unique collection identifies, theorizes, and problematises connections between different forms of expression, making a vital contribution to popular musicology, and literary and cultural studies. (Description from external book data)

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