The Cambridge companion to the singer-songwriter /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to music.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams
- Establishing a tradition
- The emergence of the singer-songwriter / David R. Shumway
- Singer-songwriters of the German Lied / Natasha Loges and Katy Hamilton
- Bill Monroe, bluegrass music, and the politics of authorship / Mark Finch
- Singer-songwriters and the English folk tradition / Allan F. Moore
- The Brill Building and the creative labour of the professional songwriter / Simon Barber
- Forging the singer-songwriter at the Los Angeles Troubadour / Christa Anne Bentley
- The 'professional' singer-songwriter in the 1970s / Michael Borshuk
- Individuals
- Thomas D'Urfey / Tōru Mitsui
- Leadbelly / Josep Pedro
- Region and identity in Dolly Parton's songwriting / Jada Watson
- Authorship and performance in the music of Elton John / Phil Allcock
- Depicting the working class in the music of Billy Joel / Joshua S. Duchan
- Musical gesture in the songs of Nick Drake / Timothy Koozin
- Sampling and storytelling: Kanye West's vocal and sonic narratives / Lori Burns, Alyssa Woods, and Marc Lafrance
- James Blake, digital lion / madison moore
- Outside voices and the construction of Adele's singer-songwriter persona / Sarah Suhadolnik
- Joanna Newsom's 'Only skin': authenticity, 'becoming-other', and the relationship between 'New' and 'Old Weird America' / Jo Collinson Scott
- Men and women
- Gender, race, and the ma(s)king of 'Joni Mitchell' / Kevin Fellezs
- Gender, genre, and diversity at Lilith Fair / Jennifer Taylor
- Changing openness and tolerance towards LGBTQ singer-songwriters / Katherine Williams
- Tori Amos as shaman / Chris McDonald
- Gender identity, the queer gaze, and female singer-songwriters / Megan Berry
- The female singer-songwriter in the 1990s / Sarah Boak
- Frameworks and methods
- Reconciling theory with practice in the teaching of songwriting / Mark Marrington
- Singer-songwriters and open mics / Marcus Aldredge
- Singer-songwriter authenticity, the unconscious and emotions (feat. Adele's 'Someone Like You') / Rupert Till
- Global perspectives
- Don McGlashan and local authenticity / Nick Braae
- Italian canzone d'autore and Greek entechno tragoudi: a comparative overview / Franco Fabbri and Ioannis Tsioulakis
- Singer-songwriters and fandom in the digital age / Lucy Bennett.