Nostalgia, Song and the Quest for Home

What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting?

This book explores a neglected aspect of scholarship surrounding the study of song-its relationship with nostalgia and notions of ''home,'' in the broadest sense. Each essay in this collection studies these factors from the perspective of ''production'', ''text'' and ''reception,'' either ind...