What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about love. Scheff takes the reader on a tour of popular lyrics from eighty years of American song to reveal the emotional and relational meaning of lyrics. He shows that popular love songs typically steer listeners away from a healthy connection to the emotions surrounding love. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of love songs while appreciating the author's suggestions for how listeners and artists could enrich the art of the love song.

Preface: A Note to Reader	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: What's in a Love Song?	p. 1
Conceptions of Love: The Eternal Debate	p. 17
Emotion Languages: Love, Pride, Anger, Grief, Fear, and Other Emotions	p. 43
Alienation in Top 40 Songs 1930-2000	p. 59
Nobody Knows but Me: Curtailment of Feeling	p. 93
Genuine Love and Connectedness	p. 103
What Emotion Is the Shadow of Love?	p. 121
The Beat Goes On: Alienation and Curtailment of Emotions	p. 131
Afterword: Two Projects for Better Lyrics	p. 147
References	p. 151
Index	p. 157
About the Author	p. 166
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs

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