1: Words, Music, and the Popular -- 2: Of Silent Notation and Historiographic Relationality: Words, Music, and Notions of the Popular -- 3: Experiencing Dylan: The Effect of Formal Structure and Performance on the Popularity and Interpretation of Two Dylan Songs -- 4: Freewheelin' with Adorno Down Highway 61:Bob Dylan's Transformative Electric Turn -- 5: Which Side is this Ex-Beatle on? A Reassessment of the 1970s Rock Press' Framing, Interpretation, and Consideration of Paul McCartney and Wings -- 6: PJ Harvey as a Modern War Poet: How Let England Shake Challenges 'English England' Through the Pastoral -- 7: Transmedia Performance in Scandinavian Singalong Shows: On the Transmediation of Liveness and Participation in Community Singing -- 8: A Melopoetic Struggle Between East and West:Mickiewicz and the Popular Idiom -- 9: Post-Sovietness of the Popular: the West, the post-Soviet Ukrainian Audience, and the Major Ukrainian Pop Star (1990s) -- 10: Café-Concert Parodies of Lohengrin (Wagner) and Othello (Verdi) in the Context of Popularisation Efforts of the Opéra de Paris in the 1890s -- 11: "...the world wanted to bleed all the sass out my name": Interrogating the Popularity of Words and Music in Tyehimba Jess's Olio -- 12: William H. Gass and the (Un)popularity of Words as Music. .