Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

Introduction Like A Version, George Plasketes; Part 1 Front Cover: Treatise; Chapter 1 Further Re-flections on "The Cover Age": A Collage and Chronicle 1 This chapter is a remastered and expanded edition of an essay that appeared in the special issue on cover songs in Popular Music and Society in 2005. Thanks always to the journal's editor extraordinaire Gary Burns., George Plasketes; Part 2 Under the Covers: History, Ideology, Identity; Chapter 2 Charting Cultural Change, 1953-57: Song Assimilation Through Cover Recording, B. Lee Cooper; Chapter 3 The Cover Song as Historiography, Marker of Ideological Transformation, Sheldon Schiffer; Chapter 4 Cover Up: Emergent Authenticity in a Japanese Popular Music Genre, Christine R. Yano; Part 3 The Song Remains the Same? Song and Album; Chapter 5 From Junk to Jesus: Recontextualizing "The Pusher", Andrew G. Davis; Chapter 6 David Bowie's Pin-Ups : Past as Prelude, Stuart Lenig; Part 4 Look What They've Done To My Song: Gender, Identity, Media Makeovers; Chapter 7 Queering Cohen: Cover Versions as Subversions of Identity, Erik Steinskog; Chapter 8 Covering and Un(covering) the Truth with "All Along the Watchtower": From Dylan to Hendrix and Beyond, Russell Reising; Chapter 9 The Same Yet Different/Different Yet the Same: Bob Dylan Under the Cover of Covers, Greg Metcalf; Part 5 Don't Forget To Dance: Technique and Techno Transformations; Chapter 10 "Hide and Seek": A Case of Collegiate A Cappella "Microcovering", Joshua S. Duchan; Chapter 11 The Mashup Mindset: Will Pop Eat Itself?, David Tough; Chapter 12 Camp Transitions: Genre Adaptation and the HI-NRG/Dance Cover Version, Lee Barron; Part 6 Contemplating Covers; Chapter 13 In Defense of Cover Songs: Commerce and Credibility, Don Cusic; Chapter 14 Artist Intentions: A Case for Quality Covers, Remy Miller; Part 7 Back Cover: Epilogue; Chapter 15 Appreciating Cover Songs: Stereophony, Deena Weinstein;