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Book SynopsisThe last twenty years or so have seen a surge of interest in the philosophy of music. However there is comparatively little philosophical literature devoted specifically to songs, singing and vocal music in general.
Table of Contents1. Editors’ Introduction: Making a Space for Song
2. David Davies, "The Dialogue Between Words and Music in the Composition and Comprehension of Song"
3. Theodore Gracyk, "Meanings of Songs and Meanings of Song Performances"
4. Jerrold Levinson, "Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis"
5. Justin London, "Ephemeral Media, Ephemeral Works, and Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Little Village'"
6. Michael Rings, "Doing It Their Way: Rock Covers, Genre, and Appreciation"
7. Franklin Bruno, "A Case for Song: Against an (Exclusively) Recording-Centered Ontology of Rock"
8. Peter Kivy, "Realistic Song in the Movies"
9. Nina Penner, "Opera Singing and Fictional Truth"
10. Lee B. Brown, "Armstrong, Crosby, Dylan, Flavor Flav: Can American Popular Vocal Music Escape the Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy?"
11. David Goldblatt, "Nonsense in Public Places: Songs of Black Vocal Rhythm and Blues or Doo Wop"
12. John Carvalho, "'Strange Fruit': Music Between Violence and Death"
13. Aaron Smuts, "'Dreaming of the People I've Dismantled': The Ethics of Singing Along"
