Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

Contents

• Contents: Introduction: like a version, George Plasketes
• Part 1 Front Cover: Treatise: Further reflections on 'the cover age': a collage and chronicle, George Plasketes. Part 2 Under the Covers: History, Ideology, Identity: Charting cultural change, 1953a "1957: song assimilation through cover recording, B. Le
• The cover song as historiography: marker of ideological transformation, Sheldon Schiffer
• Cover up: emergent authenticity in a Japanese popular music genre, Christine R. Yano. Part 3 The Song Remains the Same? Song and Album: From junk to Jesus: recontextualizing 'The Pusher', Andrew G. Davis
• David Bowie' Pin-Ups: past as prelude, Stuart Lenig. Part 4 Look What They've Done to My Song: Gender, Identity, Media Makeovers: Queering Cohen: cover versions as subversions of identity, Erik Steinskog
• Covering and un(covering) the truth with 'All Along the Watchtower': from Dylan to Hendrix and beyond, Russell Reising
• The same yet different/different yet the same: Bob Dylan under the cover of covers, Greg Metcalf. Part 5 Don't Forget to Dance: Technique and Techno Transformations: 'Hide and seek': a case of collegiate a capella 'microcovering', Joshua S. Duchan
• The mashup mindset: will pop eat itself?, Dave Tough
• Camp transitions: genre adaptation and the HI-NRG/dance cover version, Lee Barron. Part 6 Contemplating Covers: In defense of cover songs: commerce and credibility, Don Cusic
• Artist intentions: a case for quality covers, Remy Miller
• Part 7 Back Cover: Epilogue: Appreciating cover songs: stereophony, Deena Weinstein
• Bibliography
• Index.