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Prof. Dr. Martin Butler

Publications

Monograph and Edited Volumes

Butler, Martin. Voices of the Down and Out: The Dust Bowl Migration and the Great Depression in the Songs of Woody Guthrie. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.

---, with Juliana Goschler, eds. Sprachsensibler Fachunterricht: Chancen und Herausforderungen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Berlin: Springer 2019.

---, with Paul Mecheril, eds. Resistance: Subjects, Representations, Contexts. Bielefeld: transcript. 2017.

---, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer, eds. Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.

---, and Daniel Stein, eds. Musical Autobiographies. Special Issue of the journal Popular Music and Society. London/New York: Routledge, 2015.

---, Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer and Jochen Bonz, eds. Pop – Wissen – Transfers: Zur Kommunikation und Explikation populärkulturellen Wissens. Berlin/Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2014.

---, Jens Martin Gurr and Olaf Kaltmeier, eds. EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas. Inter-American Studies/ Estudios interamericanos. Trier: WVT and Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2011.

---, Patrick Burger, and Arvi Sepp, eds. Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music. Trier: WVT, 2009.

Raab, Josef, and Martin Butler, eds. Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. Inter-American Perspectives / Perspectivas interamericanas. Münster: LIT and Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2008.

---, and Frank Erik Pointner, eds. "Da habt Ihr es, das Argument der Straße": Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zum politischen Lied. Trier: WVT, 2007.

Book Chapters and Articles

Butler, Martin. ”Authentizität.” Handbuch Literatur und Pop. Moritz Baßler und Eckhard Schumacher (Hg). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019: 267-282.

---. “The Future that Never Was: Analogue Nostalgia and the Ambivalent Astronaut in the Songs of Man… or Astro-man?” Henry Keazor (Hg.):’We are all astronauts’. The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2019. 211-224.

---. “Promises of Transparency, Promises of Participation: On the Ambivalent Rhetoric of the Occupy-Movement.” Stefan Berger und Dimitrij Owetschkin (Hg.): Contested Transparencies, Social Movements, and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2019. 199-201.

---. “Of Shreds, Spoofs, and Participatory Cultures: Parodies of Popular Music Video Clips in Web 2.0 Contexts.” Nicolas Baxter-Moore und Thomas M. Kitts (Hg.): The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor. New York: Routledge, 2019. 321-328.

---. “Punk is Dead. Or is it? On Strategies of Subcultural Positioning in/and the (Re-)Making of the Punk Movement.” Olaf Kaltmeier und Wilfried Raussert (Hg.): Sonic Politics: Music and Social Movements in the Americas. New York: Routledge, 2019. 205-215.

---, with Paul Mecheril and Lea Brenningmeyer: “Introduction. Coming to Terms: On the Aims and Scope of this Volume.” Resistance: Subjects, Representations, Contexts. Ed. Butler, Mecheril, Brenningmeyer. Bielefeld: transcript 2017. 7-15.

---. “Tattoo Travels: On the Roots and Routes of American Skin Art.” Mobile and Entangled America(s). Ed. Maryemma Graham und Wilfried Raussert. New York/London: Routledge, 2016. 155-166.

---, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. "Introduction: Participation and Precarious Alliances, Now and Then." Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media. Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 7-14.

---. “Why We Talk the Talk We Talk: On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction.” Unpopular Culture. Ed. Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2016. 31-39.

---. "Net-Works: Collaborative Modes of Cultural Production in Web 2.0-Contexts." Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media. Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.19-32.

---. "Timeless Tunes, Immortal Voices: On the 'Historical Fate' of the Protest Song and the Musical Unconscious of the 'Other' America. America and the Musical Unconscious. Eds. Julius Greve and Sascha Pöhlmann. New York/ Dresden: Atropos, 2015. 51-64.

---. "''Partizipation'  – zum Einsatz eines Begriffs." POP. Kultur und Kritik. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.

---. "On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Remaking in Web 2.0-Environments." Remakes and Remaking: Concepts – Media – Practices. Eds. Rüdiger Heinze and Lucia Krämer. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015. 171-80.

Stein, Daniel, and Martin Butler. "Musical Autobiographies: An Introduction." Musical Autobiographies. Special Issue der Zeitschrift Popular Music and Society. Eds. Martin Butler and Daniel Stein. London/New York: Routledge, 2015. 115-21.

---. "Referenz und Inszenierung. Oder: Warum der Geist von Tom Joad immer noch spukt: Zum Potential (populär)kultureller Ausdrucksformen in der Modellierung migrantischer Subjekte." Subjektbildung: Interdisziplinäre Analysen der Migrationsgesellschaft. Ed. Paul Mecheril. Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. 79-96.

---, and Jens Martin Gurr. "Urbane Populärkultur als Bewertungspraxis und -ressource: Zum normativen Potential populärkultureller Inszenierung und zur diskursiven Aneignung urbaner Räume." Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. Eds. Ingo H. Warnke and Beatrix Busse. Diskursmuster – Discourse Patterns. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2014. 369-84.

---. "Kulturen in Bewegung: Grundfragen, Erkenntnisinteressen und didaktische Implikationen kulturwissenschaftlicher Mobilitätsforschung." Englisch lehren, lernen, erforschen. Eds. Wolfgang Gehring and Matthias Merkl. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 2014. 253-66.

---. "Signifying Skins: Chicano Tattoo Art, Ethnic Identities and the (Re-) Distribution of Cultural Capital." New World Colors: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Conflict in the Americas. Ed. Josef Raab. Trier: WVT and Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2014. 117-28.

---. "Woody Guthrie und Punk: Formen und Funktionen einer fruchtbaren Zusammenarbeit." "A Change is Gonna Come": Popmusik und Politik. Eds. Dietmar Schiller. Beiträge zu einer politikwissenschaftlichen Popmusikforschung. Münster: LIT, 2013. 171-82.

---, and Moritz Baßler. "Doubt to Stand: Die Stimme von Marcus Wiebusch." Performativität und Medialität populärer Kulturen. Eds. Marcus S. Kleiner and Thomas Wilke. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2013. 277-318.

---. "Of Dead Ends and Dying Bands: Representations and Implications of (Touring on) the Road in Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo." (Re)Discovering ‘America’: Road Movies and Other Travel Narratives / (Re)Descubriendo 'América': Road movie y otras narrativas de viaje en América del Norte. Eds. Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez and Wilfried Raussert. Trier: WVT & Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2012. 55-65.

---. "Towards a Topography of Hybridization in U.S. Urban Popular Music." "Cornbread and Cuchifritos": Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music. Eds. Wilfried Raussert and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Inter-American Studies. Trier: WVT and Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2012. 99-110 (edited reprint of a journal article that was published 2008).

---, and Jens Martin Gurr. "On the ‚Cultural Dimension of Sustainability‘ in Urban Systems: Urban Cultures as Ecological ‚Force-Fields‘ in Processes of Sustainable Development." Generative Process, Patterns, and the Urban Challenge: Fall 2011 International PUARL Conference. Eds. Hajo Neis, Gabriel Brown, Jens Martin Gurr, and J. Alexander Schmidt. Portland, OR: PUARL Press, 2012. 77-86.

---. "'Ramblin' Men: The Figure of the Hobo in American Folk Culture." Figures of Mobility: Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives in the U.S. and Beyond. Eds. Alexandra Ganser, Katharina Gerund, and Heike Paul. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 155-75.

---, Jens Martin Gurr and Olaf Kaltmeier. "Introduction: On the Intersection between Urban Environments and Ethnic Identities in the Americas." EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas. Eds. Martin Butler, Jens Gurr, and Olaf Kaltmeier. Trier: WVT, 2011. 1-11.

---. "Words To Shoot Back At You: Woody Guthrie's War Against German Fascism." The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal. Ed. John Partington. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 67-81.

---. "Always on the Go: The Figure of the Hobo in the Songs and Writings of Woody Guthrie." The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal. Ed. John Partington. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 85-97.

---, "Making Sense of the Metareferential Momentum in Contemporary Popular Songs." The Metareferential Turn in the Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation. Ed. Werner Wolf. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 507-24.

---, and Jens Martin Gurr. "Against the 'Erasure of Memory' in Los Angeles City Planning: Strategies of Re-Ethnicizing L.A. in Digital Fiction." Selling EthniCity. Ed. Olaf Kaltmeier. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 145-63.

---. "(Dis)Remembering the Puritan Past: Silence as Strategy and Theme in Literary Representations of the American 'Story of Origin'." Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt: Proceedings. Eds. Jörg Helbig and René Schallegger. Trier: WVT, 2010. 407-19.

---, and Arvi Sepp. "Constructing Gender in Contemporary African-American Rap Videos: 50 Cent and the G-Unit." Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media. Eds. Marion Gymnich, Kathrin Ruhl, and Klaus Scheunemann, in cooperation with Stefanie Hoth. Bonn: Bonn UP, 2010. 203-25.

---. "Re-Imagined Bodies and Transgendered Space: Sites for Negotiating Gender in the Shrek Movies." Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media. Ed. Marion Gymnich, Kathrin Ruhl, and Klaus Scheunemann, in cooperation with Stefanie Hoth. Bonn, Bonn UP, 2010. 59-77. 

---. "'Please Play This Song on the Radio': Forms and Functions of Metareference in Popular Music."Metareference in the Arts and Media: Theory and Case Studies. Ed. Werner Wolf. Studies in Intermediality 4. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 299-318.

---, Marc Rössler, Andreas Wagner, and Wolfgang Hoeppner. "Grundlagen und Perspektiven einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeits- und Lern-Umgebung (KuWALU): Vorüberlegungen aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und computerlinguistischer Sicht." Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 9 (2009). Eds. Georg Braungart, Peter Gendolla, and Fotis Jannidis. 109-27.

---. "Of Delusional Disorders and Schizophrenic Selves: Renegotiating the Romantic Imagination in Jeremy Leven's Film Don Juan de Marco." Romanticism Today: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for English Romanticism at Tübingen. Ed. Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: WVT, 2009. 159-69.

---. "Towards a Topography of Hybridization in U.S. Urban Popular Music." FIAR (Forum for Inter-American Research) 2.2: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music. 2009. Web. <http://interamerica.de/>.

---, Patrick Burger and Arvi Sepp. "The Poetics and Politics of Sound: Intermediality and Institutionality of/in Popular Music." Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music. Eds. Martin Butler, Patrick Burger, and Arvi Sepp. Trier: WVT, 2009. 1-9.

---, and Josef Raab. "Introduction: Cultural Hybridity in the Americas." Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. Eds. Josef Raab and Martin Butler. Inter-American Perspectives / Perspectivas interamericanas.  Münster: LIT and Tempe. AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2008. 1-18.

---, and Arvi Sepp. "Punk's Not Dead: Erinnerungen als Strategie der Abgrenzung und Neuorientierung einer (totgeglaubten) Subkultur." Populäre Kultur und soziales Gedächtnis: theoretische und exemplarische Überlegungen zur dauervergesslichen Erinnerungsmaschine Pop. Eds. Christoph Jacke and Martin Zierold. Siegener Periodicum zur internationalen empirischen Literaturwissenschaft 24 (2008): 285-96.

---. "'Believe It Or Not, You Won't Find It So Hot': Californian Dreams and Californian Nightmares in the Songs of Woody Guthrie." Points of Arrival: Travels in Time, Space and the Self. Eds. Marion Gymnich et al. Tübingen: Narr, 2008. 159-69.

---, and Jens Martin Gurr. "The Poetics and Politics of Metafiction. Reading Paul Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium." English Studies 89.2 (2008): 195-209.

---. "Das Protestlied: Kulturhistorische Ursprünge, formal-ästhetische Spezifika und ideologische Implikationen einer performativen Gattung der Sozialkritik." Gattungstheorie und Gattungsgeschichte. Eds. Marion Gymnich, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2007. 223-37.

---, and Arvi Sepp. "Der Meta-Cartoon: The Itchy and Scratchy Show im amerikanischen Fernsehcartoon The Simpsons."Metaisierung in Literatur und anderen Medien. Eds. Janine Hauthal et al. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2007. 361-76.

---. "'Takes More Than Guns to Kill a Man': Sozialkritik und Selbstinszenierung in Liedern von und über Joe Hill." "Da habt Ihr es, das Argument der Straße": Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zum politischen Lied. Eds. Martin Butler and Frank Erik Pointner. Trier: WVT, 2007. 151-65.

---, and Frank Erik Pointner. "Protest, Musik und Performanz. Vorüberlegungen zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des gesungenen Wortes." "Da habt Ihr es, das Argument der Straße": Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zum politischen Lied. Eds. Martin Butler and Frank Erik Pointner. Trier: WVT, 2007. 1-15.

---. "Erinnern und Gedenken im aktuellen Kontext.Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Gedenkstätten. / Remembering and Commemorating Today: Forms and Functions of Memorial Sites." Zukunft im Gedenken: Orte und Personen der Erinnerung in Indien und Europa. Ed. Albrecht Frenz. Norderstedt: BoD, 2007. 17-26.

---. "The Power of the Sung Word: Reconstructing the Social and Cultural Significance of Songs." Kulturelles Wissen und Intertextualität: Theoriekonzeptionen und Fallstudien zur Kontextualisierung von Literatur. Eds. Marion Gymnich, Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2006. 165-81.

Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries and Shorter Essays

Butler, Martin. Rev. "Marina Grishakova and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds. Intermediality and Storytelling. Narratologia 24. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2010.“ Anglia 131.1 (2013): 189-92.

---. "Ernst Gassenmeier and Thornton Wilder – ein Dialog." (Essay zu den intermedialen Bezüge zwischen Thornton Wilders Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren und den Romanillustrationen von Ernst Gassenmeier). Ernst Gassenmeier: Zehn Illustrationen zu Thornton Wilders Roman Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren, Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. Michael Gassenmeier. Ludwigshafen: Llux Agentur & Verlag, 2012.38-41.

---. "Kurz vor Morgengrauen / Just before Dawn." (Essay on Forms and Functions of the representation of decisions in popular culture.) Einblicke: Forschungsmagazin der Universität Oldenburg 53 (2011): 6-11.

---. "Stewart O’Nan. A Prayer for the Dying." Entry in Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 2009.

---. "Stephen Wright." Entry in Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 2009.

---. "Stephen Wright. Going Native." Entry in Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Stuttgart/ Weimar: Metzler, 2009.

---. Rev. "Ivan Raikoff and Robert Dean Tobin, eds. A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007." Popular Music and Society 31.5 (2008): 700-3.

---. "Cultural Knowledge and Intertextuality: Contextualizing Literature in Theory and Practice." English and American Studies in German 2006: Summaries of Theses and Monographs. Ed. Horst Weinstock. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2007. 24-26.

---. Rev. "Alexandra Hissen, Bowling for more than Columbine: Subjektivität und Wahrhaftigkeit in den Filmen Michael Moores. Trier: WVT 2004." Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger 1 (2006). Web. <www.wla-online.de/artikel-detail.php?artikelid=311/>.

---. Rev. "Moritz Baßler, Die kulturpoetische Funktion und das Archiv: Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Text-Kontext-Theorie. Francke Verlag 2005." KULT_online 8 (2006). Web. <www.uni-giessen.de/graduierten-zentrum/magazin/rezension-1945.php/>.

---. Rev. "Alfred Hornung, ed. Sexualities in American Culture. Heidelberg: Winter 2004.“ In: KULT_online 6 (2006). Web. <http://www.uni-giessen.de/graduiertenzentrum/magazin/rezension-1875.php/>.

 

 

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