Beschreibung:
"Stories We Could Tell:Putting Words to American Popular Music" identifies eight typical strategies used when critics and historians write about American popular music, and subjects each to forensic analysis. This posthumous book is a unique work of cultural historiography that analyses, catalogues, and contextualizes music writing.
1. Blood Sausage and the Building Blocks of Memory 2. Counting Down the Categories 3. The Instinctual Narrative 4. The Darwinian Narrative 5. The Heroic Narrative 6. The Ritual Narrative 7. The Alluvial Narrative 8. The Agoraphobic Narrative 9. The Manichean Narrative 10. The Mythic Narrative Conclusion: Words Escape Me Coda: Igniting Love's Burning Coals