{"id":227,"date":"2016-03-16T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=227"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:52:19","slug":"katherine-williams-co-edited-volume-the-cambridge-companion-to-the-singer-songwriter-has-been-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/16\/katherine-williams-co-edited-volume-the-cambridge-companion-to-the-singer-songwriter-has-been-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Williams&#8217; co-edited volume &#8216;The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter&#8217; has been published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/katherine-williams\">Katherine Williams<\/a>&#8216; co-edited volume <em>The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter <\/em>was published in late February. This book\u00a0explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis and performance.\u00a0Leadbelly, Dolly Parton, Billy Joel, Nick Drake, &amp; Kanye West\u00a0are among the artists discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine&#8217;s own chapter is entitled: &#8216;Changing openness and tolerance towards LGBTQ singer-songwriters&#8217;, and offers an in-depth exploration of the music and social roles of Elton John, k. d. lang and Rufus Wainwright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr\u00a0Katherine Williams&#8216; co-edited volume The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter was published in late February. This book\u00a0explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis and performance.\u00a0Leadbelly, Dolly Parton, Billy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/16\/katherine-williams-co-edited-volume-the-cambridge-companion-to-the-singer-songwriter-has-been-published\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Katherine Williams&#8217; co-edited volume &#8216;The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter&#8217; has been published<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,38,37],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-book","tag-katherine-williams","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}