The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina : An Angel with Black Wings

The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. Often called "the Spanish Dylan," Sabina has established his own highly poetic space over the course of his forty-plus years as a recording artist. Using selected song lyrics from his fifteen studio and three major live albums, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes Sabina's use of antithesis, simile, metaphor, synesthesia, rhyme, and other rhetorical and poetic devices. Nappo also devotes a chapter to Sabina's ability as a narrator and concludes the book with a comparison of Sabina's best work with that of the American singer-songwriter and Nobel laureate, Bob Dylan. Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Joaquín Sabina and the Question of Song Lyrics as Poetry 1 Essential Biography and Musical Trajectory 2 The Poetics of Joaquín Sabina’s Lyrics 3 “Los cuentos que yo cuento” (“The Stories That I Tell”) Conclusion: The Poetry of Joaquín Sabina and Bob Dylan Bibliography Index About the Author __The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings__