My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens

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This book is the first academic volume dedicated to the work of canonically metamodern multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

Contributors critically examine Stevens' output and impact across the relevant fields of musicology, literature, queer theory, performance studies, religious studies, and cultural studies. The volume provides the first international and interdisciplinary analysis of the music, lyrics, performance process and cultural impact of Sufjan Stevens, through the framework of metamodernism.

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Tom Drayton is Senior Lecturer at The University of East London.

Joshua Kalin Busman is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where he also serves as Assistant Dean of the Esther G. Maynor Honors College.

Maren Haynes Marchesini holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and studies Christian music, ritual, ethics, and identity formation in contexts ranging from American megachurches to progressive and post-Christian organizations.

Greg Dember is an independent researcher and co-founder of the What Is Metamodern website and research network with Dr. Linda Ceriello.