Abstract
The Singer-Songwriter Handbook provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike. This chapter poses the idea of the singer-songwriter as bowerbird, able to gather items from the past and collect them to new purposes. Claire Coleman considers three contemporary indie folk artists, Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, and Sufjan Stevens, and discusses their bricolage of past aesthetics into something new.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Singer-Songwriter Handbook |
| Editors | Justin A. Williams, Katherine Williams |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Pages | 223-238 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781628920321 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781628920307 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- singers
- Bon Iver (musical group)
- Newsom
- Joanna
- Stevens
- Sufjan
- composition (music)