The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song

Michael Ingham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8568-3 (ISBN)

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Popular song is a liminal, hybrid form of cultural production. As a manifestation of adaptation studies, it has lacked visibility by comparison with more dominant adaptation practices, especially those for the screen. This book serves to fill this gap. It investigates what songwriters read and write before they start singing, showing that they need either to adapt material from existing sources or write their own lyrics drawn from a wide range of source texts and personal experiences. They are subject to myriad influences, and among these are other song lyrics, poems, novels, plays, films and hybrid cultural forms. This deep-structure intertextuality is embedded in the cultural flux of language, and operates at both conscious and subconscious levels. This book thus explores the complex and multifarious intertextual connections between popular songs of various genres, styles and eras and literary works, including, but by no means limited to, the Bible and Shakespeare. As such, it offers a valuable resource, by exploring the deep intertextual significance of literary source material for the intellectual and emotional diversity that can be found in the popular song form; the inverse reciprocal relationship, while much less common, is also considered in the study.

Dr Michael Ingham is Adjunct Professor of Literature, Film and Drama in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His publications related to song adaptations include “The Stretched Metre of an Antique Song: Jazzin’ the Food of Love” in Shakespeare Studies (2016); “Popular Song and Adaptation”, in The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017); “Ordinary Man: Christy Moore and the Irish Contemporary Ballad” in Music and Politics (2017); and “‘Moody Food of Us that Trade in Love’: Remediations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Popular Music” in Shakespeare’s Global Sonnets (edited by Jane Kingsley-Smith and William Rampone, 2022). He is also the author of the book Stageplay and Screenplay: The Intermediality of Theatre and Cinema (2017), a study of the intertextuality and reciprocity between stage and screen dramas.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-8568-9 / 1527585689
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8568-3 / 9781527585683
Zustand	Neuware