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. 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. 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 Rolling Stones,
the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gil
Scott-Heron, Van Morrison, and others who used voice,
instrumentation, arrangement, and production to foreground
semantically textured, often allusive, and evocative lyrics that
resembled and engaged poetry. Among the questions asked in Poetic
Song Verse are: What, exactly, is this new genre? What were its
origins? And how has it developed? How do we study and assess it?
To answer these questions, Mattison and Suarez engage in an
extended discussion of the roots of the relationship between
blues-based music and poetry and address how it developed into a
distinct literary genre. Unlocking the combination of richly
textured lyrics wedded to recorded music reveals a dynamism at the
core of poetic song verse that can often go unrealized in what
often has been considered merely popular entertainment. This volume
balances historical details and analysis of particular songs with
accessibility to create a lively, intelligent, and cohesive
narrative that provides scholars, teachers, students, music
influencers, and devoted fans with an overarching perspective on
the poetic power and blues roots of this new literary genre.
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