"Stupid, stupid signs": Incomprehensibility, memory, and the meaning (maybe) of R.E.M.'s "sidewinder sleeps tonite"

Peter Mercer-Taylor

doi:10.1093/musqtl/gdi016

"Stupid, stupid signs": Incomprehensibility, memory, and the meaning (maybe) of R.E.M.'s "sidewinder sleeps tonite"

Peter Mercer-Taylor

Music (Twin Cities)

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	456-486
Number of pages	31
Journal	Musical Quarterly
Volume	88
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdi016
State	Published - 2005

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