Sökning: "popular song lyrics"

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  1. 1. En liten sång som alla andra: Melodifestivalen 1959––1983 : A little song like all others: The Melody Festival 1959––1983

    Författare :Alf Björnberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eurovision Song Contest; popular song; Sweden; musical style analysis; popular song lyrics; music and mass media; popular music and ideology;

    Sammanfattning : With the exception of three years, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation has been a steady participant in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1958. Except for the first year, all Swedish entries have been selected by means of a televised national qualifying event. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Känsliga bitar : text- och kontextstudier i sentimental populärsång

    Författare :Karin Strand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; cultural studies; gender studies; kitsch; lyrics; nostalgia; popular culture; popular music; schlager; sentimentality; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a study of a song type that was popular during the whole of the twentieth century: the sentimental schlager. As a sub-genre of the dance and high-spirited mainstream schlager these songs are characterized by nostalgia and sentimentality. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko

    Författare :Marianna Smaragdi; Grekiska (nygrekiska); []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rebétiko; Greek music; song texts; lyrics; metaphor; metaphorical expressions; figurative language; conceptual metaphor; emotion concepts; force metaphors; Lakoff and Johnson; Kövecses;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Med Gårdagens Dörr på glänt : Povel Ramel och melodins epok

    Författare :Johanna Broman Åkesson; Per-Erik Brolinson; K. Olle Edström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Povel Ramel; Swedish culture; Popular music history; Music analysis; Lyrics; Parody; Comedy; Parlour music; Music hall; Revue; Novelty songs; Schlager; The Great American Songbook; Jazz; Latin American music; Exoticism; Notional worlds; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to examine the style of the Swedish entertainer Povel Ramel (1922-2007) as a composer and lyricist of popular songs, and to elucidate his relation to the older popular music culture, denoted "the age of melody". In the main part of the study the author analyses more than 80 works by Ramel, which he created in the 1950s and 60s. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Dylan i 60-talet. Tematiken i Bob Dylans sångtexter och dikter 1961-67

    Författare :Mats Jacobsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; litteraturteori; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; literary theory; literature criticism; The 60´s; song lyrics; contexts and interpretation; thematics; Guthrie tradition; society as father; generation conflict; The Beat Poets; Black Humor; litteraturkritik; New Left; Musicology; General and comparative literature; Musikvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Bob Dylan (b. 1941) became known as an enfant terrible and a regenerator of rock lyrics already in the tumultuous 60´s. His constantly shifting roles as musician and songwriter, combined with his notable reserve, have led to the growth of a plethora of myths surrounding his person and work. LÄS MER