Includes bibliographical references and index Lamar Alexander: The day Johnny Cash died David Caplan: Reduced to rhyme: on contemporary doggerel Charlotte Pence: The sonnet within the song: country lyrics and the Shakespearean sonnet structure Adam Bradley: Rap poetry 101 Kevin Young: It don't mean a thing: the blues mask of modernism John Paul Hampstead: Gangsta rap's heroic substrata: a survey of the evidence Keith Flynn: At the crossroads: the intersection of poetry and the blues Jill Jones: Country music lyrics: is there poetry in those twangy rhymes? Pat Pattison: Similarities and differences between song lyrics and poetry Wyn Cooper: Words and music: three stories Peter Guralnick: The triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the creative spirit David Kirby: The Jo Blow version Gordon Ball: A Nobel for Dylan? Claudia Emerson: Lyric impression, muscle memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts Ben Yagoda: Don Khan and truck-driving wives: Dylan's fluctuating lyrics David Daniel: Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the oral and literary traditions Beth Ann Fennelly: The soup that could change the world Jeffrey Roessner: Laughing in tune: R.E.M. and the post-confessional lyric Eric Reimer: Sweetness follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats and the consolations of time Brian Howe: Sweeping up the jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The stranger song" Robert P. McParland: Facing the music: the poetics of Bruce Springsteen Stephen M. Deusner: Coming into your town: Okkervil River's "Black" Jesse Graves: Still holding at the seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the contemporary poetic sequence Tony Tost.: Not to oppose evil: Johnny Cash's bad luck wind |
