The geopoetics of Tom Waits’s America: a study in cultural geography and sound
Published online on May 15, 2026
Abstract
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This article examines the imaginative geographies produced in Tom Waits’s music, focusing on how sound, instrumentation and vocal performance generate affective spaces of belonging, displacement and estrangement. Rather than treating songs as ...
This article examines the imaginative geographies produced in Tom Waits’s music, focusing on how sound, instrumentation and vocal performance generate affective spaces of belonging, displacement and estrangement. Rather than treating songs as ...