Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records and other artists and their catalogues of works. Covering also embraces cultural, commercial and creative contexts. Play it Again represents the first collection of critical perspectives on the many facets of cover songs in popular music.