Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hansen, Adam,

Titel

Shakespeare and popular music

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

London ; : Continuum,

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-178) and index.
• Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A whole lotta Shakespeare goin' on?; 1 Shakespeare and early modern popular music; 2 'Where should this music be?': Locating Shakespeare and modern popular music; 3 Shakespeare and the technologies of pop; 4 'Shakespeare with a twist': The Bard, 'race', and popular music; 5 'High-class dreams': Shakespeare, status and country music; 6 Shakespeare and the sixties; 7 Shakes-punk: 'Deformed, unfinished', and rotten; 8 Predicting riots?: Shakespeare, pop and politics; 9 Rockin' all over the globe
• 10 Fans, fans, fans, lend me your ears: Listening to listenersCoda: The rest is?; Works cited; Index
• How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented and reworked through popular music? Do all types of popular music represent Shakespeare in the same ways? And how do the links between Shakespeare and popular music challenge what we think we know about both Shakespeare and popular music? One of the enduring myths about how Shakespeare and popular music relate is that they don't - after all the antagonism between high culture and pop music could be considered mutual. In the first book of its kind, Adam Hansen shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and
• Also issued in printing.
• English