"We Didn't Start the Fire": Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies

Contents

• Foreword by Billy Joel
• Introduction: "The Stranger": Locating Billy Joel in Popular Music Studies
• Ryan Raul Banagale and Joshua S. Duchan
• Part I: "Somewhere Along the Line": Considering Tradition
• Chapter One: From Liverpool to Hicksville: Sgt. Pepper Meets The Nylon Curtain
• Joshua S. Duchan
• Chapter Two: Movin' Out on Thunder Road: Images of Ambition, Escape, and Authenticity in Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
• John J. Sheinbaum
• Part II: "This Is the Time": Performance Analysis
• Chapter Three: Billy Joel, Piano Culture, and Rock's Road Not Taken
• Jonathan D. Bellman
• Chapter Four: Form, Lyrics, and the "Short-Short-Long" Pattern in Billy Joel's Music
• Don Traut
• Part III: "You're My Home": Imagined Locations
• Chapter Five: "The Downeaster 'Alexa'": Billy Joel Signifies Folk
• Morgan Jones
• Chapter Six: "Nothing Rhymes With Bethlehem": City Branding Schemes and the Strategic Deployment of Billy Joel's "Allentown"
• Sarah Messbauer
• Part IV: "Stop in Nevada": Live Performance
• Chapter Seven: "She's Got a Way": Gendered and Physical Embodiment in Interpreting Billy Joel in American Sign Language
• Elyse Marrero
• Chapter Eight: Twenty-First-Century Patronage: The Road to Billy Joel's Madison Square Garden Concert Residency
• Stan Soocher
• Part V: "Just the Way You Are": Arranging Billy Joel, Arranging Ourselves
• Chapter Nine: Scenes From a Music Museum: The Piano Man's Notebooks in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Jason Hanley and Kathryn Metz
• Chapter Ten: Disavowing Billy Joel: Taste Shaming and "Schlock" Fandom
• James Deaville
• Chapter Eleven: My Lives: Greatest Hits and the Arranging of a Career
• Ryan Raul Banagale
• Part VI: Transcript
• Chapter Twelve: "Take the Phone Off the Hook": A Public Interview with Billy Joel, interviewed by Ryan Raul Banagale and Joshua S. Duchan
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Discography