What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting?
This book explores a neglected aspect of scholarship surrounding the study of song-its relationship with nostalgia and notions of 'home,' in the broadest sense. Each essay in this collection studies these factors from the perspective of 'production', 'text' and 'reception,' either individually or in combination. Making use of frameworks such as Marxism, critical theory and hauntology, this is a propulsive study of the global cultural phenomena of nostalgia music.
From the perspective of 'production,' authors explore nostalgia as technique and the commercialization of nostalgia. The section focused on 'text' features case studies of nostalgic songs or albums about home and musicological analyses of the nostalgic trends of songwriters, songs, albums. Finally, the 'reception' essays facilitate examination of nostalgic narratives from the subjective and varying perspectives of audiences or listeners.
Whether identifying with Bruce Springsteen or ABBA, or hailing from Ukraine or New Zealand, the featured music speaks to a listener's sense of home and self. From music of the Serbian diaspora and Country 'n' Irish music, which speak of a nostalgia for a homeland (or time) to which one cannot return, to a song performed in the Wuhan dialect for listeners who could not leave their homes during COVID containment, these collected essays feature the music of artists whose audiences have found and clung to a version of themselves.
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In Nostalgia Song and the Quest for Home, Paul Carr has curated an impressive range of essays which seek to address the relationship between song, nostalgia and home. Chapters move seamlessly between the personal, regional, national and spiritual via the analysis of a range of international exemplars. This book presents an original and innovative contribution to popular music studies. * Robert Edgar, Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University, UK * Whether its a brooding Christmas classic, Bob Marley reminiscing about Trenchtown, or a Motley Crü road ballad, weve all got our choice examples of songs about home. The concentrated attention to this topic within a single, edited volume is a most welcome and useful addition to music, literary, and pop scholarship alike. Paul Carrs three-chapter introduction establishes a rich and knowledgeable foundation for this tradition, helpfully theorizing, contextualizing, and subdividing it, before giving way to what are richly diverse (and often timely) case studies by the collections contributing authors. Readers can be sure that home is here accounted for clearly yet complexly, across and within Carrs established framework of production, text, and reception. There are parts here to feast on separately, or, for those like myself, who use home as a thematic teaching tool or as a research topic, to digest as a multi-course whole; one comes away full and yet hungry, with a stimulated appreciation for just how entangled are the experience of nostalgia and popular song. * Ryan Hibbett, Associate Professor of English, Northern Illinois University, USA *
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Critically examines the relationships between popular song, nostalgia and notions of home through a diverse range of international examples.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Home, Song and Nostalgia
Paul Carr (University of South Wales, UK)
2. History, Postmodernism and the Music Industry
Paul Carr (University of South Wales, UK)
3. Production, Text and Reception
Paul Carr (University of South Wales, UK)
Part 1: Production
4. Tales from the Surrey Countryside: Paul Wellers Wild Wood and Modernist
Nostalgia as Hypochondria of the Heart
Peter Hughes Jachimiak (University of South Wales, UK)
5. Navigating the Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Bruce Springsteen, and the Long
Walk Home
Carlee Migliorisi (Monmouth University, USA)
6. A Lifetime, One Day: Nostalgia and Dream in the Latest Album of Silvia
Pérez Cruz
Julia Escribano Blanco (University of Valladolid, Spain)
7. Nostalgia of the Frontier: Baja Mali Kninda and the Songs of Serbian
Diaspora
Ondrej Daniel (Charles University, Czech Republic)
8. Sound Resignifications and Technostalgic Incursions: the Revival in Music
Production
África González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Part 2: Text
9. When You Come Back Home: The Front Lawn and their Dream Home in New
Zealand
Matthew Bannister (Wintec University, New Zealand)
10. Narrating home in times of war: Ukrainian Popular Music after the Russian
Full-Scale Invasion
Anna Glew (University of Liverpool, UK)
11. Hanyangmen Garden: Nostalgia and solace in dialectal folk song during
Covid-19
Yangke Li (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Part 3: Reception
12. Back Where Weve Never Been: Daniel ODonnell and the Country n Irish
Imaginary
Stan Erraught (University of Leeds, UK)
13. Lets Win Another Trophy Like We Did in 55: Representations of the
North East throughout Makina Music
Chris Inglis (BIMM Bristol, UK)
14. Abba Were my Constant and my Saviour: How Nostalgia, Memories, and
Notions of Home Shape Peoples Favourite ABBA Songs
Shanika C.S Ranasinghe (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Index
Paul Carr is Professor Emeritus in Popular Music Analysis at the University of South Wales, UK. His research interests focus on musicology, the music industry and pedagogical frameworks for music related education. His most recent publications include co-editing The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research (2020), an economic assessment of the Welsh Music Industry (2022) and editorship of a special double edition of the Journal of World Popular Music on the impacts of Covid-19 (2022). He is also an experienced performing musician, having toured and recorded with artists as diverse as The James Taylor Quartet and ex-Miles Davis saxophonist Bob Berg.
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