Katherine Williams - The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

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First published 2016

Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd. Padstow Cornwall

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Names: Williams, Katherine (Katherine Ann) | Williams, Justin A.

Title: The Cambridge companion to the singer-songwriter / edited by Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams.

Description: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015029103 | ISBN 9781107063648 (hardback) | ISBN 9781107680913 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Popular musicHistory and criticism. | Popular musicWriting and publishing. | SongsHistory and criticism.

Classification: LCC ML3470 .C364 2016 | DDC 782.4209dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015029103

ISBN 978-1-107-06364-8 Hardback

ISBN 978-1-107-68091-3 Paperback

Marcus Aldredge

Marcus Aldredge is Associate Professor of Sociology at Iona College, New York. His areas of scholarly interest include culture, interactionism and deviance. His book Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics was published in 2013 and the co-edited anthology David Riesmans Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy is due in 2015.

Phil Allcock

Phil Allcock is a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield whose research interests include topics such as stardom and celebrity, gender and identity, and computer-aided methods of analysis. Central to his work is the way in which humans create, interact with, and interpret music.

Simon Barber

Simon Barber is a Researcher in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University. He has published work in The European Journal of Cultural Studies , The Radio Journal , The Journal on the Art of Record Production , and the Jazz Research Journal among others.

Lucy Bennett

Lucy Bennett completed her PhD in online fandom at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC), Cardiff University. Her work appears in journals such as New Media & Society , Journal of Fandom Studies , Transformative Works and Cultures , Social Semiotics , Continuum , Cinema Journal , Celebrity Studies , and Participations . She is also the co-founder of the Fan Studies Network.

Christa Anne Bentley

Christa Anne Bentley is a PhD candidate in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the politics of popular music at the intersections of folk and commercial styles. Her dissertation considers elements of the local scene as well as national social movements that shape the development and reception of the 1970s singer-songwriter movement in Los Angeles.

Megan Berry

Megan Berry teaches Ear Training, Harmony and Media Theory in the School of Media Arts at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, New Zealand. She is a singer-songwriter who gigs locally with her band, The Heartbreak Kids. Her research interests include gender and popular music, and creativity and play.

Sarah Boak

Sarah Boak is a Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century Music at the University of Southampton, where she is also writing up her PhD. Her thesis examines phono-somatics the relationship between embodiment and voice in recorded music in the work of female singer-songwriters debuting in the 1990s.

Michael Borshuk

Michael Borshuk is the author of Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2006), and numerous essays and book chapters on African American literature, American modernism, and music. From 1999 to 2009, he wrote on jazz for the magazine Coda . He teaches at Texas Tech University.