Song, Songs, and Singing

Jeanette Bicknell is an independent scholar, author and consultant.?She is the author of Why Music Moves Us (Palgrave, 2009).?Her work, on the aesthetic of music and other topics in aesthetics and ethics, has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy & Literature, and the Journal of Value Inquiry, among others. John Andrew Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.?He is the author of Reflecting on Art and articles in epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind; in recent years he has concentrated on various themes in the philosophy of art, including the ontology of art works, the ontology of rock music, the nature of songs, technology and art, the distinction between high and low art, as well as articles on the aesthetics of nature and environmental aesthetics.

• 1. Editors’ Introduction: Making a Space for Song2. David Davies, "The Dialogue Between Words and Music in the Composition and Comprehension of Song"3. Theodore Gracyk, "Meanings of Songs and Meanings of Song Performances"4. Jerrold Levinson, "Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis"5. Justin London, "Ephemeral Media, Ephemeral Works, and Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Little Village'"6. Michael Rings, "Doing It Their Way: Rock Covers, Genre, and Appreciation"7. Franklin Bruno, "A Case for Song: Against an (Exclusively) Recording-Centered Ontology of Rock"8. Peter Kivy, "Realistic Song in the Movies"9. Nina Penner, "Opera Singing and Fictional Truth"10. Lee B. Brown, "Armstrong, Crosby, Dylan, Flavor Flav: Can American Popular Vocal Music Escape the Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy?"11. David Goldblatt, "Nonsense in Public Places: Songs of Black Vocal Rhythm and Blues or Doo Wop"12. John Carvalho, "'Strange Fruit': Music Between Violence and Death"13. Aaron Smuts, "'Dreaming of the People I've Dismantled': The Ethics of Singing Along"