Shakespeare and Popular Music

How Have Shakespearean Characters, Words, Texts And Iconography Been Represented And Reworked Through Popular Music? Do All Types Of Popular Music Represent Shakespeare In The Same Ways? And How Do The Links Between Shakespeare And Popular Music Challenge What We Think We Know About Both Shakespeare And Popular Music? One Of The Enduring Myths About How Shakespeare And Popular Music Relate Is That They Don't - After All The Antagonism Between High Culture And Pop Music Could Be Considered Mutual. In The First Book Of Its Kind, Adam Hansen Shows What Happens To Shakespeare When He Exists In And Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin' On?; 1 Shakespeare And Early Modern Popular Music; 2 'where Should This Music Be?': Locating Shakespeare And Modern Popular Music; 3 Shakespeare And The Technologies Of Pop; 4 'shakespeare With A Twist': The Bard, 'race', And Popular Music; 5 'high-class Dreams': Shakespeare, Status And Country Music; 6 Shakespeare And The Sixties; 7 Shakes-punk: 'deformed, Unfinished', And Rotten; 8 Predicting Riots?: Shakespeare, Pop And Politics; 9 Rockin' All Over The Globe 10 Fans, Fans, Fans, Lend Me Your Ears: Listening To Listenerscoda: The Rest Is?; Works Cited; Index Adam Hansen. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 162-178) And Index. Also Issued In Printing. English