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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe - Paradigms, Politics and Place (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe - Paradigms, Politics and Place (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and
compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure
within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with
spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the
singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated for a variety of
reasons. Many such musicians possess large and zealous followings,
their output often esteemed politically and usually held up as the
nearest popular music gets to high art, such facets often yielding
sizeable economic benefits. Yet this figure, per se, has been the
object of scant critical discussion, with individual practitioners
celebrated for their isolated achievements instead. In response to
this lack of critical knowledge, this volume identifies and
interrogates the musical, linguistic, social and ideological
elements that configure the singer-songwriter and its various
equivalents in Europe, such as the French
auteur-compositeur-interprete and the Italian cantautore, since the
late 1940s. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of this
figure in the post-war period, how and why its contours have
changed over time and space subsequently, cross-cultural
influences, and the transformative agency of this figure as regards
party and identity politics in lyrics and music, often by means of
individual case studies. The book's polycentric approach endeavours
to redress the hitherto Anglophone bias in scholarship on the
singer-songwriter in the English-speaking world, drawing on the
knowledge of scholars from across Europe and from a variety of
academic disciplines, including modern language studies,
musicology, sociology, literary studies and history.
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