Singer-Songwriters in Slovenia: An Ethnomusicological Study by Teja Klobčar

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“Mark the music”: Shakespearean female characters in contemporary rock music by Maria Elisa Montironi

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De Gréco à Juliette : les justes causes de la chanson française by Bruno Blanckeman

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Nowy bard. Twórczość i działania Tomáša Hnídka w dyskursie czeskiej skrajnej prawicy by Tatiana Witkowska

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No complete unknown – the saga of Bob Dylan’s literature nobel by Christopher Rollason

“… This essay examines the phenomenon of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2016 to the US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (born in 1941) and the worldwide controversy it has given rise to. …”
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BRUNO MARS / by Herbert, Emily, author 644284

“…Here is the incredible story of Bruno Mars, the obscure Hawaiian singer /songwriter who rocketed to global fame in just three years. …”

Grace, Laura Jane. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. New York: Hachette, 2016. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780316387958. £13.99. Print. by Gina Maya

“…In her autobiography Tranny (2016), punk singer/songwriter Laura Jane Grace explores the excesses of two forms of subversion, against the music industry, and heteronormativity as a transgender woman. …”
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Sertão translated into Danish by Peter Poulsen

“…The aim of this event , promoted by the Brazilian Studies at Aarhus University, was to introduce Luiz Gonzaga and his music, showing how this singer-songwriter has shaped a vision of the people and landscape of northeast Brazil.…”
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Leonard Cohen: The Modern Troubadour by Jiří Měsíc

“… The following essay portrays parallels between the work of a contemporary singer-songwriter and author Leonard Cohen and the medieval Occitan troubadours. …”
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Introduction by Muriel Plana, Stéphane Escoubet, Xavier Cervantes

“…Setting the stage for the more in-depth explorations in the various articles that follow, the introduction already uncovers and highlights the fundamentally plural and hybrid nature of the singer-songwriter-performer and her work, in terms of art forms, values and cultures.…”
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From Taylor Swift to dune: the religio-political and spiritual agency of popular culture by Ali Hussain

“…Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, who just finished her concert tour in Singapore, exercises a unique power in American politics as an advocate for the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential elections, prompting some from the Republican Party to declare a “holy war” against her cultural influence. …”
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Review: by Louie Giray

“… Billie Eilish, a young yet famous American singer-songwriter, had been trending online because of her conversations with a radio host. …”
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"The Cult of the Diva" – Rufus Wainwright as Opera Queen by Oliver C. E. Smith

“…The music of Rufus Wainwright has been afforded much critical acclaim thanks to the singer-songwriter’s understanding of Queer cultural history, and the candor with which he explores (homo)sexuality in his music. …”
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Neil Young: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Pedro Javier Romero-Cambra

“… Canadian singer songwriter and composer Neil Young (b. 1945) has been puzzling the minds of his listeners for decades. …”
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"Makin it right" through the poetry of Alf Taylor by Danica Čerče

“…By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural rnilieu of the author, my essay aims to show its thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. …”
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Playing Before God: Theology and Play in Dialogue by Daniel Gabelman

“…The Christian Church’s sometimes hostile relationship to any form of play has often been noted. The Scottish singer/songwriter Michael Marra has observed that in Scotland today there are still communities that chain up swing-sets on Sunday—a practice which implies that playing can be sinful, at least if done on the most theological day of the week. …”
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“But What about Me, and What I Felt?”: Morrissey’s List of the Lost as Queer Gothic by Brontë Schiltz

“…In one of the numerous negative reviews, Michael Hann described singer-songwriter Morrissey’s debut novella, List of the Lost (2015), as “an unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey’s imagination,” yet from a queer perspective, it is pioneering. …”
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Fans, amies, collaboratrices, disciples ? L’authenticité, entre affects et utilitarisme by Elena Nesti

“…The ambiguity cultivated on Instagram in the relationship between a pop singer-songwriter and her closest circle of fans is the subject of this article. …”
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Un chant « pour les voyous virés de la Sorbonne » :la poéticité maudite des chansons d’Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine by François Prévost

“…Claiming to “play for the thugs fired from the Sorbonne” and defined as a poet from the early beginning of his career by the media, the contemporary singer-songwriter Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine has been blurring the porous line between song and poetry for more than forty years and nearly two hundred songs. …”
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Agudeza y desconcierto en la voz de Chinoy by Laura Jordán González

“…This article examines ideas about gender identity raised by the reception of singer-songwriter Mauricio Castillo (Chinoy)’s ‘high-pitched voice.’ …”
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