Symphony and Song: The Intersection of Words and Music

Victor Kennedy

Dec 2016 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

About this ebook

Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan,” and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this volume apply recent theoretical approaches ranging from the “Mozart Effect” in cognitive psychology, through stylistics and conceptual metaphor, to transtextuality in the analysis of a range of songs, song lyrics, poetry, ekphrastic prose, and instrumental music. Topics explored here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, political instrumentalization and censorship of song lyrics, and teaching foreign language using songs.

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About the author

Victor Kennedy is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Trent University, and Humber College in Canada. He is the author of Strange Brew: Metaphors of Magic and Science in Rock Music (2013) and editor, with Michelle Gadpaille, of Words and Music (2013).

Michelle Gadpaille is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. She previously taught at the University of Toronto, and is the author of The Canadian Short Story (1983) and As She Should Be: Codes of Conduct in Early Canadian Women’s Writing (2010), and the co-editor of Words and Music (2013).