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The rose & the briar : death, love and liberty in the American ballad / edited by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3551 .R67 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- Love songs.
- United States.
- Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism.
- Ballads, English.
- Death in music.
- Love songs--United States--History and criticism.
- Liberty--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Rose and the briar
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
- Summary:
- Wilentz and Marcus have assembled an astonishing group of writers and artists--more than a dozen novelists, essayists, performers, and critics--to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad in words and in drawings.
- Contents:
- "Barbara Allen" / Dave Marsh
- "The water is wide" / Ann Powers
- "Pretty Polly" / Rennie Sparks
- Music, when soft voices die / Sharyn McCrumb
- Naomie Wise, 1807 / Anna Domino
- John Brown's body / S. Vowell
- "When you go a courtin'" / R. Crumb
- Little maggie: a mystery / J.C. Oates
- We did them wrong: the ballad of Frankie and Albert / C. Brown
- The sad song of Delia Green and Cooney Houston / S. Wilentz
- Destiny in my right hand: "The wreck of old 97" and "Dead man's curve" / D. Thomas
- I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / L. Sante
- "See Willy fly by" and "The cuckoo" / J. Langford
- Mariachi reverie / Paul Berman
- "The foggy, foggy dew" / John Rockwell
- "Come Sunday" / Stanley Crouch
- "El Paso" / James Miller
- "Trial of Mary Maguire" / Ed Ward
- Love, lore, celebrity, and dead babies: Dolly Parton's "Down from Dover" / Eric Weisbard
- "Sail away" and "Louisiana 1927" / Steve Erickson
- Dancing with Dylan / Wendy Lesser
- "Nebraska" / Howard Hampton
- "Blackwatertown" / Paul Muldoon
- Envoi / Greil Marcus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes discography.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393059545
- OCLC:
- 55744543
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