Singing Poets

Singing Poets

Author: Dimitris Papanikolaou

Publisher: MHRA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1904350623

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This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and cultural studies.


Singing Poets

Singing Poets

Author: Dimitris Papanikolaou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1351196170

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"Between 1945 and 1975, in both France and Greece, literature provided the aesthetic criteria, cultural prestige and institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song and the authentic representative of a national popular music. Published poems were set to popular music, while critical discourse celebrated some songwriters not only for being 'as good as poets' but for being 'singing poets' in their own right. This challenging and stimulating study is the first to chart the parallel cultural processes in the two countries from a comparative perspective. Bringing together cultural studies with literary criticism, it offers new angles on the work of Georges Brassens, Leo Ferre, Jacques Brel, Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis and Dionysis Savvopoulos."


Sing

Sing

Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0816528918

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A multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from Alaska to Chile, and features familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets--both emerging and acclaimed--from regions underrepresented in anthologies.


Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Author: Robert Pinsky

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-08-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0393050688

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Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."


Singing Ideas

Singing Ideas

Author: Tríona Ní Shíocháin

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1785337688

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Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society.


All of It Singing

All of It Singing

Author: Linda Gregg

Publisher:

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering, just as the poem lasts. In the concert of being present. —from "Arriving" Linda Gregg's abiding presence in American poetry for more than thirty years is a testament to the longevity of art and the spirit. All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems for the first time collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and thirty remarkable new poems.


Singing the Chaos

Singing the Chaos

Author: William Pratt

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780826210487

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Combining both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German and Russian poets, this work surveys a century of high poetic achievement


Pickers and Poets

Pickers and Poets

Author: Craig E. Clifford

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1623494478

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Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic quality and substance of the lyrics are front and center. Obvious candidates for this category would include Townes Van Zandt, Michael Martin Murphey, Guy Clark, Steve Fromholz, Terry Allen, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Bell, and David Rodriguez. In a sense, what these songwriters were doing in small, intimate live-music venues like the Jester Lounge in Houston, the Chequered Flag in Austin, and the Rubaiyat in Dallas was similar to what Bob Dylan was doing in Greenwich Village. In the language of the times, these were “folksingers.” Unlike Dylan, however, these were folksingers writing songs about their own people and their own origins and singing in their own vernacular. This music, like most great poetry, is profoundly rooted. That rootedness, in fact, is reflected in the book’s emphasis on place and the powerful ways it shaped and continues to shape the poetry and music of Texas singer-songwriters. From the coffeehouses and folk clubs where many of the “founders” got their start to the Texas-flavored festivals and concerts that nurtured both their fame and the rise of a new generation, the indelible stamp of origins is inseparable from the work of these troubadour-poets. Please see the listing for the print edition to view the table of contents for this title.


Tennyson Among the Poets

Tennyson Among the Poets

Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-08

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0199557136

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A revaluation of Tennyson's achievements and influence. Explores the multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers: his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.