![]() ![]() A poetics of song should pay increased attention to this intricate relationship – not reducing lyrics to biographical contingencies, but rather viewing autobiography itself as a complex process of self-reading, a public act of autobiographical making. What we have lost as a result of this undue insistence on mediation is an awareness of the two-way traffic between life and lyrical craft. I trace a long-standing mistrust of self-expression in popular music through a branch of scholarship fixated with performance and personification, demonstrating its underlying affinities with post-structuralism and modernist dreams of impersonality. This article argues that songwriting can be an autobiographical activity. ![]()
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