Lit-rock : literary capital in popular music /

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Conspicuous Listening : Literature, Rock, and the Pop Omnivore / Ryan Hibbett -- Part 1. Authorship and Authenticity. David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock's Unfinished Revolution / Barry J. Faulk ; Kurt, Kathleen 'n' Kathy : Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being For Real / Patricia Malone -- Part 2. Craft and Confession. Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession / David R. Shumway ; Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor : The "Amateur" Poetry of Taylor Swift / Weishun Lu ; Personae Non Grata : Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs / John Kimsey -- Part 3. Aesthetics, Movements, Technology. New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music / Chris Mustazza ; Cycling on Acid : The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock / Tymon Adamczewski -- Part 4. Signs and Mediations. A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song : Images of James Joyce in Popular Music / Kevin Farrell ; "Hand in Glove" : Punk, Post-punk, and Poetry / Martin Malone -- Part 5. Nation and Narrative. Under an American Spell : U2's The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O'Connor / Scott Calhoun ; Rock, Hard-Boiled : The Mekons and American Crime Fiction / Peter Hesseldenz ; When Poetry Meets Popular Music : The Case of Polish Rock Artists in the Late Twentieth Century / Marek Jeziński -- Part 6. Identity and Discourse. "It's our version of Almost Famous" : Towards a Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism / Kimberly Mack ; Limits of the Literary : Rethinking Allusions in Pop Music / Pat O'Grady."Discusses the relationship between popular music and literature in conjunction with the connection between high and low art"--