Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Conspicuous Listening: Literature, Rock, and the Pop Omnivore
Part I: Authorship and Authenticity
	1 David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock’s Unfinished Revolution • Barry J. Faulk
	2 Kurt, Kathleen ‘n’ Kathy: Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being for Real • Patricia Malone
Part II: Craft and Confession
	3 Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession • David R. Shumway
	4 Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor: The “Amateur” Poetry of Taylor Swift • Weishun Lu
	5 Personae Non Grata: Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs • John Kimsey
Part III: Aesthetics, Movements, Technology
	6 New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music • Chris Mustazza
	7 Cycling on Acid: The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock • Tymon Adamczewski
Part IV: Signs and Mediations
	8 A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song: Images of James Joyce in Popular Music • Kevin Farrell
	9 “Hand in Glove”: Punk, Post-punk, and Poetry • Martin Malone
Part V: Nation and Narrative
	10 Under an American Spell: U2’s The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O’Connor • Scott Calhoun
	11 Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction • Peter Hesseldenz
	12 When Poetry Meets Popular Music: The Case of Polish Rock Artists int he Late Twentieth Century • Marek Jeziński
Part VI: Identity and Discourse
	13 “It’s Our Version of Almost Famous”: Toward a Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism • Kimberly Mack
	14 Limits of the Literary: Rethinking Allusions in Pop Music • Pat O’Grady
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index