What's love got to do with it? : emotions and relationships in popular songs /

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about love. Scheff takes the reader on a tour of popular lyrics from eighty years of American song to reve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheff, Thomas J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm, ©2011.
Temas:
Popular music > History and criticism.
Love songs > History and criticism.
Emotions in music.
Musique populaire > Histoire et critique.
Chansons d'amour > Histoire et critique.
Emotions in music
Love songs
Popular music
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's in a love song?
  • Conceptions of love : the eternal debate
  • Emotion languages : love, pride, anger, grief, fear, and other emotions
  • Alienation in top 40 Songs 1930-2000
  • Nobody knows but me : curtailment of feeling
  • Genuine love and connectedness
  • What emotion is the shadow of love?
  • The beat goes on : alienation and curtailment of emotions
  • Afterword : two projects for better lyrics.

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